Analyze Rosemary's Baby

The music really accentuated the spookiness of this part of the film because it made the viewers feel scared and as if something horrific was about to happen. The second technique, high-angle shots, was used when the mother was crying on

The use of music/sound annotate the mood and help create the feeling that Burton is trying to deliver to the audience. Burton adds tranquility to his films with non-diegetic sound in Edward Scissorhands. When Peg enters through the gates of a dark, sinister looking mansion, she unexpectedly finds herself in a beautiful garden with bushes that have creative and incredible designs. After Peg notices the decorative garden she is standing in, nice calming music plays in the background. The sound of the angelic and harmonious chorus relates to the peaceful and serene garden. The music notifies the audience that although the mansion looks terrifying, the beautiful garden indicates the contrast between the two. This gives the audience a sense of tranquility as Peg reaches the door. However, once Peg enters the mansion, Burton returns to the eerie and creepy non-diegetic sounds. The chorus begins to get louder while repeating the same beat to add tension and anticipation on what will happen to Peg. With the help of the piano, Burton establishes the new frightening mood after creating a cheerful mood. Peg’s adventure to the mansion is much more exciting for the audience, with the use of non-diegetic sound. Burton utilizes music/sound in Big Fish as well. When Edward takes a shortcut to Spectre through an odd looking path in the woods, Edward suddenly finds trouble along the way. Burton

The movie takes place in the fictional small Midwestern town of Endora, Iowa. Gilbert says in the film’s opening voiceover, “Describing Endora is like dancing to no music...nothing much happens here, and never will,” In one of the scenes, we understand that the father could not handle the pressures of life so he committed suicide 15 years earlier by hanging himself in the basement. Gilbert is concerned about the condition of the farmhouse so he calls his friend Tucker so they can check the stability of the floor by going into the basement. They bring in some

Hitchcock’s Psycho is a great representative of horror and thriller genres. The director masterfully creates an atmosphere of suspense and creates tension. Hitchcock blends characteristics of a thriller with horror, making the audience terrified. The director creates situations that can happen to anybody of the viewers, and thus, makes such scenes even more scaring and disturbing. For instance, the scene of the murder in a shower impresses the audience to a

The neighbors in this clip from “Rosemary’s Baby” are the pinnacle of weird behavior. This movie was made in 1968 adapted from the book “Rosemary’s Baby” written by Ira Levin. The story is about a girl named Rosemary, who recently has had a baby. Her husband is a small time actor whose success is just starting to pick up. There neighbors, the Casavets seem very nice at first, but this changes extremely fast when she realizes they are Satanists. This part of the film shows Rosemary holding a knife. She wants her child back from these creepy people. They had given her sedatives and according to the people there she took too many and was going crazy. She goes to look at her baby only to see its eyes are cut out. She screams and Mr. Casavet says, “He’s got his fathers eyes” referring to Satan. They keep talking about how her son is the son of Satan and they keep saying how “God is dead.” It is a very eerie seen that creates a chilling mood.

In this scene the music becomes eerier, darker, and more suspenseful. The music choice mirrors and helps emphasize the town's feelings towards

Horror films share similar characteristics. Horror is meant to enact fear into its audience. Most horror films scare their audiences by using vampires, zombies, ghosts, blood, or gore. However, the film, Rosemary’s Baby (1968), scares its audiences, not by blood and gore. Rosemary’s Baby is one of the scariest films made, but does not conform to the normal horror genre. Roman Polanski’s film tells a story of a young mother who manipulated to give birth to Satan’s baby. Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes), an actor, is enticed by wealth. He is promised by the old couple next door (Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer), who are part of a Satanic cult, riches in exchange for his wife’s, Rosemary (Mia Farrow), womb. Rosemary’s Baby is a horror film due to the cultural response of the audience based on real-life events of the 1960’s.

When the dolls started to catch on fire, the music changed into a scary, lowtoned music. The technique creates a disturbing scene and signals that the tour might not have gone as planned in the start. Tim Burton also creates a horrifying scene in the movie, Edward Scissorhands, by using Non-Diegetic sounds. In the movie, one of the main character, Peg, is about to enter Edward’s home. Getting ready to go into the home, delightful music plays to display the sense of discovering a new environment. Later in the scene, the music transitions into a wicked non-diegetic sound. In result, it may cause the viewers to become frightened or curious about the home. Aside from that idea, the use of scary, non-diegetic sounds also emphasizes the old, fragile home of Edward Scissorhands. The cinematic techniques, non-diegetic and diegetic sounds, are used in the two movies to give the audience a feeling of disturbance and

In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, in comparison to the Bucket home and the chocolate factory, inside the Bucket home, the coziness and connection of the family is emphasized with the warmness of the background music, while the factory, regarded as new, uncertain, and foreign, has absolutely no background music. This shows the difference of Charlie’s home, where family and bonds are formed, and the massive, cold, totally secluded factory. “Edward Scissorhands” uses the background music in the inventor’s death scene to show the joy, then horror, then recapitulation of the inventor’s death. The music accompanies the horrors of Edward seeing his inventor die just as Edward’s hands were being presented to him, and watch as Edward rips through his own hands and create slashes on the inventor’s face; even then, the music returns to the background, somewhat joyful, in juxtaposition to the fear and horror Edward feels. The introduction music of “Beetlejuice” is a signature technique from Burton, with a somewhat terrifying and creepy sense to it, but not quite horrifying. The mixture of this gives the viewer an introduction of the fear incoming, but still feels whimsical enough to be eager to watch. The use of the background music amplifies the feelings the viewer gets when watching Burton’s films, when used for anticipation, fear, or

Uncanny music is common throughout multiple movies Tim Burton has produced. Music tends to provoke emotion in viewers and Burton’s films capture these emotions efficiently. Typically the introduction to Burton’s films are filled with mysterious music. In “Alice in Wonderland” the introduction has loud music the varies from happy to eerie while containing a dark scene. Then in “ Edward Scissorhands” Peg (mentioned earlier) is driving up to Edward’s mansion, loud and dramatic non-diegetic music.

Not only is there a conflicting dissonance between the diegetic and non-diegetic sound as discussed previously, this element is equally present within the incidental music itself. Quite frequently a single beat or rhythm is introduced and subsequently grouped with differing, often incongruent beats, sound effects, noises, and tones. Combining a huge assortment of audio techniques, varying greatly in style, tone, and tempo, the background score is erratic and unpredictable and it injects the film with a volatile, unrelenting feel. Futuristic melodies, distorted and muffled noise, screeching static sounds, pulsating beats, siren-like music, pounding, banging, grating, and soft, echoing tunes are all combined and jumbled together at different times, never letting the audience get comfortable with anything it hears. This effect is amplified by suddenly starting and stopping, changing speeds, and alternating levels of volume to the already perplexing and unnerving soundtrack. These strategies, much like the foreboding antagonist, constantly remind the audience of the looming, impending doom the characters face, even in the safest of settings and in the most mundane

The type of music being played is a big factor toward Burton’s films. For example, if the film was muted during an intense scene viewers will not get the intended effect as if there were suspenseful music. The type of music playing is one of the influences towards the mood. In Corpse Bride when Emily rises from the ground they are playing heavenly music. The music gives Emily an angelic figure.

Rosemary seems stagnant for the majority of the novel. She floats around her college, avoiding the one thing that will give her the ability to grow: confrontation with her strange childhood experience. By running away from confrontation, she stays in a place where she doesn’t know her own identity. Only until her estranged brother returns does she begin to overcome her predisposition.

The entirety of the film takes place in a meager apartment occupied by two men, Black and White, played by actors assigned according to their skin tones. Black is a murderer, an ex-con who’s found God and salvation through

Horror films are known for their ability to scare audiences, to get the audience’s hearts racing, their blood rushing. A good horror film will cause viewers to be on the edge of their seats and having their perception of reality distorted as they attempt to understand the unraveling plot of the horror film. The tone of the film aides in the amount of suspense that a horror film produces, since a much darker film will create a more suspenseful atmosphere than one that is more focused on campy monster makeup. But the tone of a film is determined by the sound of the film, or in other words, the score. Sound or music in a horror film, or the lack thereof, make the intense scenes and without the addition