Mise-en-scene - Setting

Mise-en-scene 

Settings:
The most common settings of horror films are mostly isolated and abandoned places that are really old and sinister, or either regular looking houses to make the audience feel like that could happen to anyone.

       

This picture is from ‘The conjuring’. The idea of the house being in the middle of nowhere gives the audience the impression that if something happens to the people who live there, there will be no one around to help them, or even know they’re dead. Also the colours shown by this location are are browns& greys which makes the area look really dead and abandoned.

 

                                     

This is a picture from the film ‘Paranormal activity 4’. The setting of this film doesn't look particularly scary, it actually looks really homely, this is why it scares the audience, it looks like a nice normal family living in a nice normal house on a normal street, until the idea of unwanted presences are brought to the scene, making the audience feel like it could happen to them.