How do I measure fear on the screen

Fear is a kind of emotion from people`s heart, there are a lot of effects could make people fear, because people always afraid of something unusual.On the screen, there are also many elements to make people fear, however, how to measure the fear on the screen is a interesting thing, I have a special method to measure fear myself, which I will show below.


                                IDEA

1 The effect which is unknown on the screen

There are always some types of scene, which just shows something on people`s back when people looks behind, I believe that the most horror thing for the audience is to find something which is unknown by the next second on the screen. These shot always shows on some Eastern style horror films, such as Ju-on: The Grudge（Japan），A Wicked Ghost (Hong Kong),  See prang 2（Thailand）

2 Bloody dress up

The special make up is also important, sometimes when people see someone with just two holes on their eyes on the screen, or their tharm shows outside their bodies, will be really horror, at least will make audience`s sight a shock.

3 Unreasonable

Sometimes there are some horror films shows some different theory showing to the audience, for example, some disease could be contagious by people`s mind, this theory will easily make people fear when they believe it is true. The representative of those films is Infected（Korea）

4 Monsters vampires and zombies

In many horror films earlier between 1940 to 1980, the monsters, vampires and zombies are the mainly style to display horror, there are many horror films to show about those elements.

5 Violence

Violence is a type of soft horror film for audience, these style of horror films could make people scared and exciting.

                         Technique of expression

Some techniques, such as sound and color will be the mainly skill to show the fear.

1 SOUND

Sound is important in a film, sometimes a good type of sound could let a film becomes perfect.In horror films, some strident or strange voice appears suddenly will make audience startle, some quick speed musics also could make people become nervous.

2 COLOR

The strange color could receive a special effect sometimes in a horror film, for example, there is a film named Infected(Korea), there is a scene shows a red apple on the desk, but at the next time, the color of the apple changes into green. This effect make the audience fear for a long time. Sometimes deep color could also make audience depress and nervous.

3 Special equipment

Sometimes some good horror films will devise some special weapons for characters to use, such as saws, guns, knifes and so many others. If a filmmaker want to make out some bloody effect, he will use those weapons to increase the vision, but most of the time, the audience will feel not comfortable with their stomachs when watch it.