The Cabin in the Woods Analysis

While watching a clip from The Cabin in the Wood, I can't really tell if it is a horror movie. This is only because the start of the clip, we see a guy driving in his car, but he is smoking something that he shouldn't and upbeat music is playing while this is happening, as other characters come to this guy and tell him off for what he has done, he walks off pretending not to care about what the others say. From my perspective of watching the opening scene, is that it looks more like a comedy rather than a horror, only because of the body language the characters are using  and the way the music is being played in the background. As this is the opening scene of the film, it may have a little bit of comedy in it as this can make the audience more engaged and interested of the film because it having two genres in one film. But later in the film, the scenes can become tense. more scarier and seeing the characters change a little different. 

 We then have the camera shots of the opening scene. One of the camera shots would be a medium angle and also shot. This is shown, when the women is standing out of the caravan and we can see her head to her shoulders but not her body as it is a medium shot. This is effective because we can see her facial expressions of what is happening in the scene, her facial expressions seem a little shocked as she has seen the guy driving his car, but it could be because of something else. We see her body language also and she doesn't seem to be bothered of what is going on and is minding her own business. While watching the opening scene of this film, we mainly see a lot of different types of angles and shots. One other shot type, would be a two person shot, this shot is effective because it shows two people in one shot, which is really clever as we can see what the characters are doing in one shot. With this shot, we can see a women and a man looking very confused but also shocked at the same time suggesting something bad has happened or will happen. By the facial expressions on the woman's face, she looks shocked and angry because of the guy smoking something he shouldn't, also same with the man, he looks more confused than shocked as he isn't sure what is going on. With the woman's facial expressions  and her body language it shows us that she is desperate to find out what is going on but also to find something out. 

In most horror movies you always get upbeat and happy music in the first few minutes of the film, this is because the audience will be interested of what is happening but will be more engaged. This film is a good example as at the start we hear upbeat music being played in the background while the characters are speaking. But later in the film, there will be tense music only because it will make the scenes more tense and frightening as most horror movies needs tense scene to get the audience more into the film.