Genre; Science Fiction
Mise en scene/ Sound/Cinematography: The high ceilings and the mechanical props help made the film effective as a science fiction film. It looked like the film was filmed in a factory or some sort of engineering place or some sort of army submarine, in the bottom where every thing is operated, where all the mechanical things could of been located. The colours of the props were dark, with the darkness of the props and the lighting joined together, there were parts of the setting you couldn't see. The lighting helped in the way of making it dark and light in different places, when it was light you could see the mechanical bits and pieces around him, and how the light is lurking through the ceiling, just that bit murky. When it turned dark it was hard to see parts of the setting. The whole setting helps with the movie genre, Science Fiction.
Mise en scene/ Sound/Cinematography: The high ceilings and the mechanical props help made the film effective as a science fiction film. It looked like the film was filmed in a factory or some sort of engineering place or some sort of army submarine, in the bottom where every thing is operated, where all the mechanical things could of been located. The colours of the props were dark, with the darkness of the props and the lighting joined together, there were parts of the setting you couldn't see. The lighting helped in the way of making it dark and light in different places, when it was light you could see the mechanical bits and pieces around him, and how the light is lurking through the ceiling, just that bit murky. When it turned dark it was hard to see parts of the setting. The whole setting helps with the movie genre, Science Fiction.
The costume of the man who was looking for his cat, was very simple. He was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and an old jumper/cardigan and a baseball cap. He looked very simply dressed, someone who drove a bus or something. The way he was dressed, made him look vulnerable, not very strong. The way he moved slowly along the set built up the suspense of the people watching not knowing whats going to happen and when. When he was walking through, at one point you could hear a heartbeat over everything, and the creaking while he was walking made it sound like no one had been there for years. The clanging of chains, and his footsteps, the water trickling down from about and the calls out to his cat jonesy are the few things that you hear during the movie, not a lot of dialogue is used, except for when the man was calling out to his cat. As soon as he finds the cat, there is another sound. The sound of the alien growling, and then the man turns round and the alien is right there in front of his face, at this point you can hear the alien making a noise, a hissing sort of noise, then the screams as the alien attacks him. The sounds all added to the suspense of the movie and not knowing where the alien was going to get him. At one point the man looks up and takes his cap of so water can trickle down his face, at this point, the suspense was building as people might have been expecting the alien to come down and attack him right then and there, but the movie continued on into another part, this helped build the suspense.
The camera movement in the film made it a lot more exciting, the slow and steady movement created the suspense as the man was moving through calling out to his cat, jonesy. The camera cut into close ups of the man, to create more suspense. During the film the camera followed over his shoulder, it gave the impression that you were following him down the halls. The camera position was in different positions, when he was picking up the alien skin that he found on the floor, it came in from the ants view and back up into a medium close up and sometimes a close up.
