Product Research(Ginger Snaps)

We decided to analysis ginger snaps as our product research because it has an sense of things not being as they seem, even though the movie is a horror it has themes that we want to include in our psychological thriller.

• The moving image of the girl turns to a still creating tension amongst the audience as it looks as if some on has taken a photograph but the audience do not know who or why, also it creates a sense of things not being as they are seen as 'photographs' are set up.

• The images of dead young girls are disturbing to the audience this is because the images are gory and contain lots of blood, the audience do no know why they have been killed creating curiosity also the audience are not sure whether to believe that the girls are dead due to the opening when the images were being set up; laughter throughout the opening also confuse the audience as it does not connote to what is being shown on the screen.

• The low key lighting, faded colors and out of focus shots are applied to create a surreal atmosphere throughout the opening, the faded colors and low lighting unsettles the audience as they do not know whether to believe what they a being shown or not which further confuses the audience

• The typography is Gothic and narrow relating to the Gothic style and sartorial codes established in the opening, the music is slow and tension building, the Gothic style anchors the images and typeography shown.