During this task, we chose to make a short film with the horror genre about a girl (Willow) who is walking down an alley and is attacked by a stranger (Lilith) and knocked unconscious and taken to an abandoned farm and then hunted down by the stranger. This short film was made to show the contrast between evil and innocence, which was shown through the portrayal of the two characters because Willow, played by Grace, is portrayed as the innocent character and Lilith, played by Tee, is portrayed as the evil character, also we showed the contrast in the atmosphere when it is day and when it is night because when it is day you can hear all of the diegetic sound of children and cars in the background whereas when it is night you cannot hear anything accept the sound of footsteps and wind.
In this essay I will be exploring the cinematography and mise en scene of two scenes from the 2006 film, Pan's Labyrinth, by Guillermo del Toro. The two scenes that I will be comparing will be the Pale Man scene, where Ofelia meets the horrifying Pale Man, and the dinner scene, where Captain Vidal hosts a dinner party for his colleagues. In the Pale Man scene, the cinematography practically mirrors the cinematography in the dinner scene with the Pale Man sitting at the head of the table, which is exactly where Vidal sat in the dinner scene. The mise en scene of the Pale Man scene suggests that the Pale Man is a monster because on the walls of the room there are illustrations of the creature eating and murdering children, also the costume and make-up used to turn Doug Jones into the Pale Man looks physically disgusting and scary. In addition, throughout the scene and whole film there are constant references to circles and eyes, circles being a reference to the type of narrative th
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