Elise Booth Film Studies

Wong Kar Wai a film maker internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work visual style Wong Kar-wai's greatest film is a watercolour blur of bodies in motion, zooming through the Hong Kong streets with the freewheeling spirit of the French New Wave Colour is an element in the form of art. Different colours represent different emotions. According to ideological content and emotional needs, Wong Kar Wai will choose colors on purpose, and he will also change the true colours i life and replace them with other colors showing underlying meanings. The world of Wong Kar Wai's films is filled with different colours.   Shang Hai complex

For this task, we chose to make a horror about two characters that each represent Innocence and Evil, showing the chase between the two until the innocent girls death, which was successfully displayed in our setting of a haunted house. The title ‘Mordhaus’ is German for ‘Murder House’, and we chose this to link to the theme of German Expressionism. We chose to have the Evil character portrayed purely through shadows, whereas the innocent girl was always clearly in shot. This made a clear distinction of opposition in our use of mise-en-scene and approved to very successfully show our narrative, but also relates to Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu, from which our film was inspired.  During post-production we chose to make the piece black and white to show the internal conflict of light and dark emphasised by the chiaroscuro lighting, and is a key element of 1920’s German Expressionist silent films of the horror genre. The Evil character was shown  predominantly creeping up on...