1. Clip Analysis
Skeleton Key
Is the genre established? How is the genre established? What does the audience find out How does the audience find
in the first 2 minutes? this out?
• Yes, Psychological Horror • On-going theme of death • Kate Hudson is a nurse; the • Costume
• location in a hospice main character so far, also a • Environment
• boxes of personal effects in protagonist • Boxes of effects in the trash
the trash • First scene is in a hospice • Elderly people
• Black man dies • Mise en scene
Arlington Road
Is the genre established? How is the genre established? What does the audience find out How does the audience find
in the first 2 minutes? this out?
• Yes, Horror/Thriller • Sound/Lighting/Camera • Seriously injured child • Camera shots
• Fast-paced non diegetic • Missing hand/bleeding • Body language
sound • Stranger presumably helps • Mise en scene
child