Evaluation of Nostferatu Jake B

Evaluation of Nostferatu



In the first few clips we see the title sequence showing all the characters involved in the movie and also the director. Ours is the same as we also show all these things. The background is black with a big, bold text on it showing the title and the rest of the cast. We also did this but with red text insted of white, but we left out the title as we leave this until the end of our film to build suspense.
In the first scene we see the 2 characters. 1 a man and 2 a woman, they both behave normally as the man is shown tending to his garden and the woman is shown teasing her cat. This then enphazises that the two characters aren't evil as they both behave in a normal fashion. We also did this with our character Jacob. We show him walking out of college and texting on his mobile phone which shows he is normal, also the setting is important as our setting is in an everyday environment which misleads the audience into thinking Jacob is safe when he isn't, where as the two characters are safe in Nostferatu.
We later on see the old man looking at some sort of plan on paper which looks cunning and evil, this then builds a little suspense as he looks insane and the audience will wonder what he has to do with the story as it unfolds. Our film is slightly different as Jacob is dragged down an alley without warning and this can make the audience jump as it is sudden and unexpected and therefore builds alot of tension for the remaining part of the story.
The lighting in Nostferatu is quite dark and in black and white because it is a film from 1922. Our film is modern but we still used black and white in the opening scene to give a past tense feel aswell as making it seem uneasy.
The sound in Nostferatu is major key music which sets the mood of each scene as the silent movie needs music to establish feelings and the setting. We used this in our film by having a soft, minor key guitar sequence in the background to make everything seem calm and safe and then we use a loud shreeking sequence of sound to bring tension and to unexpectedly change the environment from calm to hostile.