Hysteria
Iconography
- Blood connotes death
- Fire connotes danger
- Flashing lights possibly connoting warning or danger
- The teenagers disappearing into the black connotes their deaths
Mise-en-scene:
- Opening scene is quiet/deserted alleyway
- Teenagers wearing casual clothes such as tracksuits and hoodies
- Nightclub poster with picture of person in flames
- Dark quiet street at night
- Deserted nightclub
- Flashing lights
- Dark lighting in rooms/at doors/at top of stairs - teens walking into the unknown
- Photos and newspaper articles on wall of injured person which explains the previous events at the nightclub/ the reason why it is haunted
- Lights switching off as remaining teen runs upstairs (darkness consuming her)
Narrative:
- Group of teens intrigued by poster of free-entry nightclub
- Nightclub on deserted street at night, nightclub at first not open
- In nightclub which is empty
- Strange things start to happen - dj boy in pain, beer drinking boy coughing up blood, etc
- Teenagers killed off 1 by 1 as they try to escape
- Viewers find out about tragedy in club before involving arson and person dying (fire and pic on poster foreshadows)
- Another poster for the nightclub is put up in a new area by the mystery person (presumably the DJ who was in the club the night of the arson attack)
Sound:
- Diegetic sounds include the fire crackling, crackling sound from unused dj desk club, music getting louder, sound starts crackling, teenagers worried voices and screaming for help, echoing knock of door and doors banging, mobile phone tone, sounds from unknown sources e.g. doors being opened/closed in distance, boy asking 'is that you?' which is a typical thriller, deep breathing, crackling sound (like of bones/flesh), teenagers walking up stairs and shuffling along corridor and teenage boys arguing as one wants to leave.
- Non diegetic includes the dark music and the screaming-like music
Camera:
- Extreme close up of unknown b&w face
- Shot looking down on teens (being watched)
- Security camera shots (being watched)
- Close up behind boy putting vinyl on desk
- Close up of boy taking beer out of fridge
- Shot filmed behind crowd to film boy djing
- Close up of dj in pain
- Tilted mid/long shot boy spitting out blood (after drinking beer)
- Close up of blood in sink
- Match on action shot of boy coughing blood into sink
- Quick cuts between dj boy and blood in sink
- Cutaway shot of blood on wall
- Quick cuts to faceless hooded figure, then to dead person on the floor and back to faceless person
- Quick cut far shot of dj boy in pain
- Cut to cctv clips (being watched)
- Low shot of teens running down corridor
- Far shot of boy sitting against wall on floor
- Match on action boy walking up to door and then trying to open it
- Close up of boy trying to open door
- Extreme close up of hand reaching out, cut to extreme close up of an eye, quick cut to close up of boy's face with blood on, quick cut to extreme close up of blood running from his ear, quicker cuts to shots of the boy being killed
- Close up of hand covered in blood
- More cuts to cctv footage (being watched)
- Cut to shot looking down on teens as they walk up stairs
- Mid shots of boys arguing about leaving/exploring (not shot reverse shot though, 1 camera pan movement)
- Camera tilt up as boys walk up stairs into darkness, then tilts down (as if expecting someone to be coming up the stairs after the boys)
- Cut to close up of blood running down wall
- Quick cut to hand reaching out of darkness, quick cut to bloodied hand grabbing boys foot on the stairs, quick cut to hands holding boys face, cut to black
- Cut to shot looking down set of stairs to boy laying dead
- Track girl walking along corridor, pans across to pics on wall (follows girl's eye direction)
- Cut to close up of pics of injured person. fade to paper burning (shows text/quotes from newspaper articles)
- High angle show looking down on girl climbing stairs (as if being watched), fades to black, fades to tunnel entrance far out shot of person appearing at entrance, cut to extreme close up of person's head, looks up extreme - Close up of eyes
- Cut to pale hand sticking poster up on tunnel wall
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