The use of camera in the opening to fright night was very typical of classic horror. The starting image was of a moon and the off-screen diegetic somewhere in or around the house. The camera then pans around to the inside of a bedroom and we realise the sound is coming from the TV. But because the sounds were of a boy talking about how much his girlfriend looked pale and had very red lips we presumed that somewhere- a guy was going to get bitten and the slow pan added a lot of tension to the opening. We then realise that the actual characters are on the floor kissing and we feel silly for getting worked up about it.
Sound-
Sound is used very cleverly in the opening as we think that the offscreen diegetic was the actual characters but then realise that its just TV noise and this is a clever way of getting the audience to feel scared right from the beginning. Another way sound is used is things like insects in the night and traditional creepy night noises which would have probably been scary at the time but nowadays is just seen as cheesy and cliche.
Threat introduced- Strangely enough, the threat in this film is introduced to us straight away. The main character in the film gets suspicious one night when he sees someone putting a coffin in the house our threat has just moved into- the boys neighbour. Then when he sees people come in and never come out but seen to be dead on the news- he knows that the new neighbour is a killer. As the boy has seen a coffin, he presumes that their are vampires involved. Further along in the film- the boy meets the neighbour when he is blacking out his windows and we start to realise that he is a vamp. We see the threat although it is daylight and we find him only oddly creepy and not overly dangerous even though we know what he is.
By Megan Wildsmith
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