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How do the film makers use the camera to tell the story?

there are many ways in which the directer uses the camera to tell the story. one of these ways were that in the middle of the story we find out the man that was portrayed as a father to the vampire, Abby. this was than corrected through the camera  shot in the movie when Owen was in Abby's  house. as he gets in he asks about her father and Abby replied by saying "he isn't my father" while Owen picked up a picture of Abby and the young boy with glasses, also the photographs seems very old via this the story was told by the camera and not by dialog, that the little boy in the picture was the person that lived with her but he wasn't her father but a guardian of Abby.

In one other scene the story is told via the camera was when the police officer was attacked by the Abby (vampire). the officer reaches out to Owen to help him and this shot was taken by the view of the character Owen that is looking down at the officer. Owen that walks forward and reaches his hand out in a dilemma between the door handle or the life of the officer, where than he decides to pull the door shut and this shows the commitment he will be making for the rest of his life for Abby yet again this was not spoken in the movie but illustrated by the camera.


Is the camera used objectively or subjectively?

there were many different shot in the movie that were used both objectively and subjectively

one objective shot was of the wide shot of the underground were Abby(vampire) was with a man and also when he he attacked by her.

anther objective shot was shown, when Abby claims the tree( wide shot) and then jumps down to attack the women( birds eye shot).

a subjective shot were when  Abby was angry with Owen and started to blead this shot was seen through  eyes of Owen.

one other subjective shot was oven under the swimming pool, as the boys outside the pool were being killed although this shot was not from the point of view of Owen but it was only showed the scene under the pool and not of the action outside the pool acting as a protective shield away from danger which Owen and the camera only showed what Owen could see.

how does the Mise en scene reflect the theme, genre and ideology of the movie? 

the Mise en scene directly effect and show the theme and the genre of the movie, this is told through the sets as many of the scenes are very dark and dull giving a secretive and scary feel, especially when there were disclosed  conversations. The clothing of the character of Abby as it would be impossible for a small girl to to not be cold in the snow and to be walking barefoot.it helped to show the genre of the movie horror. also the daylight was hardly shown in the movie most of the movie was made during moon light.

   

30th sept media lesson

in today's lesson we got to explore a lot. we as the media as class had a great chance to go to the city learning center (clc) where we got to unfold the the techniques and qualites of a camara. this was shown to us by Mr Holloway, he tought us how a every diffrenet change of camara angles can give a a unique feeling to the shot. he also  teached about the 3 cut shot and lighting and also about the 180 degree angle