The Ring is an American psychological horror and it is a remake of 1998 Japanese horror film called Ringu. It was later released in 2002. The main narrative consists of watching a videotape that contains random but disturbing images, following a phone call where a girl’s voice announces that the person viewing the tape will die within 7 days. It had a budget of $48 million which led to over $200 million at Box office as stated on IMDB’s website.
Genre
There are many typical codes and conventions of horror such as sound, editing, and shots which can be shown in this film. The film creates suspense in the audience as the narrative consists of a countdown to death. The characters in the film are also isolated in a cabin which again follows the stereotypes as most horror films stereo typically includes of being alone. This is what creates fear for the audiences; when they are alone in terrifying situations.
Codes and Conventions
The usage of dark, desaturated colour palette lighting follows the mainstream horror generic convention. There are also many uses of loud thuds during a moment of silence to make the target audience jump and this is why they go to watch horror films. Sound plays a major role in horror films from loud screeching to silent creepy eerie music which can all have an impact on how it affects the audience. It mainly follows a familiar template of having a quiet scene with a loud jump at the end which shocks the target audience.
Camera work and Editing
There are many uses of camera shots throughout the film such as wide shot, long shot, extreme close up shots, low/high angle shots; all of which fits to represent the horror genre. The use of wide shot allows us to view the location of the film to gives us a sense of isolation as it is shot around an isolated cabin. Low and high angle shots portray how we view the film along with extreme close up shots to emphasize the facial expressions of characters. Usually the demonic possessed person/object is shown by a quick jump cut to show a glance of it rather than show it for a long period of time because if this was the case, it would decrease the whole scary image of it and not leave the audience in suspense. In the modern days of producing films, there are lots of uses of CGI (computer generated imagery) to provide a supernatural image creating something that is beyond a person’s imagination. All again, used for the purpose to build fear. The main demonic figures face is obscured by hair in order to not reveal the full face, keeping suspense high by anticipating what it looks like.
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