Sixth Sense Film Techniques

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The Sixth Sense is a PG-13 horror film released to the public on August 6, 1999 by director M. Night Shyamalan. It talks about a boy name Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) who is able to see and talk to people from the dead and child psychiatrist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) tries to help him. Throughout the movie there were a wide variety of scenes that made the movie memorable for the audience. One scene that I found intriguing was the funeral reception of Krya Collins. There were numerous techniques that got used which tie everything for the audience to understand who the murderer was at the end of the funeral reception. Without analyzing the post-funeral scene, the audience would not have believed that Cole could speak to the dead. Cole was …show more content…

Kyra’s father witnesses the moments on how his daughter was poisoned. The string music is brought back, with a louder and intense sound which means something bad was happening. When it was time for lunch, Kyra runs to her bed hiding from her mom and pretending that she was sleeping in bed. When Kyra’s mom sees that Kyra was sleeping and takes the advantage to add the poison inside. She puts the food tray on the table in the exact location her doll theater. Since Kyra did not turn off her video, the video was able to catch a close-up on the bottle containing the poison that was used to keep Kyra from being sick. This onscreen segment shows that Kyra’s mother was responsible with the poison and this caused her father to start his mortified period. Thus this scene had another extreme close-up shot and we cut to a reaction shot which is, “A cut to a shot of a character’s reaction to the contents of the preceding shot” (Giannetti 527). In order to keep the extreme close-up and the reaction shot together, the lighting was a critical factor. The lighting was high in the scene. They focus on physical aspects on Kyra’s father by bringing a pale face featuring darkness that was surrounding him. Everything was focused on him and if you take a look in the background, everybody was blurred

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