BLOG QUESTION ADV: WAYS HORROR FILMS ARE MANIPULATING YOU

In a detailed paragraph, explain how you are using or could use 4 of these steps to help develop your horror film story before you begin shooting.

Some techniques that we plan to include in our Anthology film are negative space, anticipation, under exposure, long scenes, and sound design. A lot of our settings are either vast and very liminal, or very claustrophobic. We want to invoke the feeling of anxiety since the characters are being thrown into unknown/unnatural spaces. Since we never show the monster, its presence is only known through the sounds it makes. I think it'd be a cool detail to add infrasounds as well to subconsciously create a feeling of dread for the viewers.