Genre research: Get out

  Another film that Sarah and I reviewed was the movie get out. This movie centered around a black man who visits the parents of his white girlfriend. Her parents turn out to be keeping a secret that regards the estate and the town itself, but I'm just analyzing the features of the movie. Get out has a lot of headshots and eye level shots. this technique allows the viewer to witness all the emotions that cross a characters face and how the situation can influence their reaction. Not only that but during these scene Chris, the main character, would look directly into the camera, and directly at the viewer. This technique amplified that connection even more, because at times it seemed like he was crying out for help from the audience. This is a skill I want to use in our final task to really evoke emotion from the audience. Unlike in the Eli movie where background music was prioritized, Get out prioritized diegetic sound. For example the movie would increase the volume of Chris' breathing or his heartbeat, or even the stillness of the woods to put the audience on edge and frustrate them so that every sense in their body was anticipating some terrible doom but was not allowed the satisfaction of meeting that doom quite yet. I see it as a form of delayed gratification. This movie also used foreshadowing, from the costumes that some characters wore to the events that occurred early on in the movie. Get out is by far one of the best examples of a horror movie to analyze.