PRIEST Analysis

  

Mise-en-scene

Costume: They are wearing long black cloaks.

Lighting: Low key lighting to make it more intense.

Actors: Approximately aged 20-30, one woman who gets killed in the first minute to show weakness of        women.

Make-up: Crosses on their foreheads.

Props: The little metal cross thing and daggers hanging from their pockets.

Setting: Set in a cave, this is the main setting through out the film except the animated bit.

Camera

To start with there is an establishing shot which sets the scene of the exterior.

There is a pan of the cave which again sets the scene of the interior.

Close up of two people which shows emotion and their speech.

POV of tunnels and then zooms a little, makes you ask what's down there, creates enigma.

Hand-held shot when running to show panic.

Close up of hands, shows relationship.

-Animation part-

At title zooms out a little.

Editing.
Normal cuts, you can focus on the film and storyline.

The cuts get quicker when the vampires attack.

Goes white to show time has passed with jump shots.

Blacks out between shots.

Animated bit.

Vampire creatures are edited in.

Sound

Diagetic: Thunder, Dialogue, walking and their feet on the floor. Weird breathing sound, dripping, clink of cross when he take it out his belt, screech, scream, screech of vampire's, a man falling on the cave floor "huh", grunting then "arghhhr".

Non-diagetic: Drums, quiet music --> echo sounding. Music quite fast paced but low sounding, music  gets more intense and louder, music changes to deep. Narration of animation. Sounds that go with the animation (roar's ect.).