Emotion of horror movie

The emotion of a horror movie is constant, the long build up making people hold their breath, than a bit wind back make people feel relief, than put the horror part of your movie, and these horror scene always come with sound effects. The emotion of the people who watch your horror movie is either like roller coaster or gradually built up.

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As a cameraman, I attempt to get to know everything that could make the camera works better and the shot looks more professional. I have been research most of the technique as a cameraman need which include the lighting, types of the shot, angels of camera, but I forget the most important thing that I didn't participant to make the storyboard. That leads me in a fair awkward position, change the shots on the storyboard they been made or add a bit more my own opinion without changing the original. I picked the second one, the only valuable things I did were add two point of view shots which adds a bit tension on the screen. The rest of time I was just a rookie like "hey, is that what you mean?" after each shot.
But I still felt good about that I got how camera works in the movie. I gotta watch out what sort of shot and angel they shooting when I see the next movie. What long shot, mid-shot, and close up stand for, which basically mean establishing background, the most commonly used shot for dialogue after set the background, magnified something to emphasize a emotion or specified detail of an object.
I am also another role in the team, the sound effects editor. According to watch a few Hollywood and Japanese outstanding horror movie(Nightmare of Elm street, The ring) throughout my observation, the most thing make a movie scary is not the horror, supernatural scenes stand alone, but also the rhythm of building up tension by a increasing heartbeat, annoying scratching sound etc. or even a completely silence. They are all about the expectation and surprise, that the audience knows something gonna happen but not sure about where and when, you can suddenly stop the building up by creating a small issue like a animal pass through or a phone call, to make the audience feels relief, then use the most horror scene by the bang noise following the screaming to shock them. Otherwise If we get rid of the sound effects from the movie, it will look ridiculous, just a sequence of cutting shots.
A fairly popular visual effects in horror films, flash back transition(just like the background gets blur then quickly white flash to another scene come with a shuu noise) to represent the character had a vision or it was just a dream, or the character saw something and associated something else.

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Journal for jun 2 and 3

We have done all the footage so far, and rough editing. I finally realize why shoots Hollywood movie taking so long, because 4 minutes and half rough footage took us entire 2 days and still seems not really enough. We got luck some scenes just done by 2 or 3 times, unfortunately most time we did each scene over 6 times. As a camera man, I didn't really participant into the process of making the final script and storyboard, which leads I didn't give many valuable opinion during the shooting.
I am pretty much worked out how the basic lighting(not use at all)going, camera angels, compositions,as well as different type of shots.
Each of us should have a bit sound effects, moreover I occasionally found how to make flash transition in FCP. (http://www.mattias.nu/plugins/) which is a plugin effects to add flash back transition that great for presenting people's illusion or day dream with audio effects.

Summary of camera angel and basic shots

Shots
1.Extreme long shot
is generally used as a scene-setting, establishing shot.
2.Long Shot
is generally one which shows the image as approximately "life" size ie corresponding to the real distance between the audience and the screen in a cinema
3.Medium Shot
Contains a figure from the knees/waist up and is normally used for dialogue scenes, or to show some detail of action.
4.Close-Up
This shows very little background, and concentrates on either a face, or a specific detail of mise en scène. Everything else is just a blur in the background.
5.Extreme Close-Up
generally magnifying beyond what the human eye would experience in reality.
Angle
1. The Bird's-Eye view
This shows a scene from directly overhead, a very unnatural and strange angle.
2. High Angle
Not so extreme as a bird's eye view. The camera is elevated above the action using a crane to give a general overview.
3. Eye Level
A fairly neutral shot; the camera is positioned as though it is a human actually observing a scene, so that eg actors' heads are on a level with the focus.
4. Low Angle
These increase height (useful for short actors like Tom Cruise or James McAvoy) and give a sense of speeded motion.
5. Oblique/Canted Angle
Sometimes the camera is tilted (ie is not placed horizontal to floor level), to suggest imbalance, transition and instability (very popular in horror movies).
lighting
3 point light
Key light

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