Film Analysis for The Strangers:

The Strangers is a film about a young couple who are being terrorized in their own home by three masked people. This film is based on a true story and inspired by the murders of the well known serial killer Charles Manson. We had chosen to look at this film as it involves similar scenes that we are thinking of using within our main task. The first scene we have chosen to do an analysis for our main task, consists of a dark setting, handheld camera works and the location of numerous trees. This is where the woman is running away from the home to save herself and get help. This is what we want to do, as our main task involves a girl being followed in the woods, also using some handheld camera work, although our main task will not involve murder and chases but it still has some resemblance to The Strangers. Throughout the scenes the camera work switches pace, the most significant part would be the fast cutting as this gives the effect of tension and shows the panic of the main protagonist. This also adds effect to the frightening nature of the film and links with the idea of what we are trying to portray in our sequence. When the woman in the film is crawling on the grass, the camera work is done at quite a fast pace. This adds to the overall feeling of the film, and is a feature we would like to include in our main task.

The Strangers on IMDB