Main task research/planning [2] Analysis

Genre: Horror


A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Before the title appears there is a minute of things that seem to be happening. The clip starts off with a close up camera shot on the person’s feet that is walking and all we can see in this mise-en-scene at this point is the feet and then the hands. There is diegetic sound of heavy breathing by this character, this sets the mood of what is going on as it makes it seem more scary because we can not see this face so all we hear from him is his heavy breathing. There is an also non-diegetic sound of a keyboard to make it more eary and intense. There are a lot of cuts in this part. We then see a hand reach out for a tool and this hand does not look clean, this shows that this character would be the antagonist in this movie. In this clip we see the antagonist using tools, these tools are the type of tools that could be used to hurt somebody like a sharp knife, hammer, a flame etc… but these tools are being used to make something. The antagonist’s hand is then reaching into a glove slowly that he had just made for himself from those tools we previously saw. There is then a close up of one hand with the glove on and the sharp claws out, this gives an idea that this is going to be used later on in the film. After the title appears there is a sudden shot of the claw going through something to show how dangerous this man is and also with this shot there is a scream in the background as well as a roar to show as if the scream was coming from the object the claw went through.

After this there is a wide shot of a girl running through some sort of alley way with wet floors and all dark everywhere apart from behind where there is only visible light but she seems to be running away from the light as typically the person would be walking towards the light to get out of the danger but then maybe this light is where the danger is. Suddenly a sheep pops out from the side with a loud evil laugh in the background, this shows that this could be some sort of nightmare that this girl is having and the evil laugh could relate to the person in the previous clip.