Notes on the opening of Sleepy Hollow

The gothic, scary genre is introduced by the deep, low frightening music, horror based, the setting (mis en scene) is dark, cold and spooky flashes of lightning keeping the audience on their feet.

The mood is introduced a lot by the music again, it creates enigma as it’s a mystery to what is actually happening, as most as if there is a build-up. Something else that builds tension for the audience is the fact that they may have loads of questions which are not being answered, hooking the audience even more making it more and more interesting.

Weather is also used to set the mood, rainy dark weather is stereo typed to be scary.

Characters are represented as old fashioned/ elerly you can see this by the costumes that they are wearing and the setting help adds to the effect, by doing this the narrative is slightly introduced too.

The camera shots that are used are a lot of close ups, mid shots and point of view shots.

The title order so far was: Companies name, who presents the film, productions and the director’s name.

My film will include close ups, dripping, lots of enigma, dirty misty atmospheres old buildings and mislead stories.