Ginger Snaps

Ginger snaps (2000)
The opening film to Ginger Snaps has given us a real inspiration into what we are considering doing for our film. Me and my partner decided that we should maybe do a murder scene investigation for our opening scene. And the reason why i want to look at ginger snaps is because it shows things like dead bodies, and this is what we have in mind. We don't want to show the murders, just the bodies and maybe like an under cover detective trying to find who the murderer is.

This shot (left) is a good example of building up the tension and the nerves. It shows a dead body underneath a car. As the audience, you want to know why shes there, how she got their, who killed her and who is she. Like i said, we want to use murder in our movie, but we don't necessarily want to show the murder. We want it to be a little like this shot, where you do potentially see the body, and it makes you ask questions like who, what, where, when and why?


I also like this shot. Because this film is a horror, they had to try and make it look as spooky as possible and i think this shot represents it's genre best. It shows the body far away so the audience know where about the body is kept but out of nowhere, a close up sees to dissolve into the picture and overlaps it. To me this is quite spooky because it is a really close up image of the dead body. And this made us me realise how you really have to make the camera shots suit the genre you are doing and what you are trying to achieve.

This shot showed me the importance of props if you need to use them. This shot here shows a body bag, and it tells us a lot. It tells about that someone has been murdered and left in the boot of a car. You get all this by simply looking at the fact that there is a body bag and the body is in the boot. It has showed me that if we are to use props, we need to make sure they look realistic, and fit in with the story.