The movie that we want to study is Monster House, which is the 3D computer-animated supernatural horror and comedy film. The human character was used in the live-action motion capture technique. This movie was directed by Gil Kenan and the release date was July 21 in 2006.
About the genre of this film, this film had multiple genres like horror, comedy, action and adventure. These genres had using some of the film technique to achieve and match the genre like the sound, lighting and others of the elements. Firstly, we discuss the horror genre. Same as the previous of the report (The Six Sense), the objective of horror genre movie is making the audience scary and the feeling of frighten. So, the main purpose of is making the scary of the audience. For the example, we can notice that when the Horace Nebbercracker come out from his house, the colour of his room is the black colour, which is dark, and the face is slowly come out from the door. It makes a strong contrast between the colour and the facial expression of him is very dynamic that makes the audience feels he is very scary. About the colour, we also can notice that the colour of the Horace Nebbercracker’s house and also the surrounding of the house is dark and cool colour. This make the audience become uncomfortable and also as the portent that will happen something.
The next genre is about the comedy, which of the genre that wants to make the audiences laugh is the main purpose. Comedy is a sub-genre in this film, and it archives it task by some film techniques. For the example in the Monster House, the character who named Chowder, the archetype of character is a joker. The role of this archetype is making the fun for the character around him. The interaction with D.J. Walters makes the personality of him become obvious. He is acting very funny like do some stupid things and in front of girl will change the truth of his character. There also some of the comedy elements hiding in the film. The comedy as the sub-genre can make the film become more excited and interesting, while the plot of the story is boring.
Thirdly, the action also as a sub-genre of this movie. Actually, the action film has some of the scenes of the fighting, escaping ad others scene that can attract the attention of the audiences and make the audiences become excited and enjoy the film. In the Monster House, there have two of the part that the audience can feel the action genre, which is the main character and his friends escape from the Monster House. On the way of escaping, the acting of them is very dynamic and also catch the attention of the viewers. The other scene is they escaping and fighting with the Monster House. D.J. Walters receives the dynamic from Horace Nebbercracker to destroy the Monster House. By the way, he wants to climb up to the high place to throw the dynamic because it only has one chance. When D.J Walters prepare to throw the dynamic, he faces the crisis that he almost fell down. About the camera angle of the action film, the audiences can notice that some of the event or action will have more than two shot from a different angle. For example, the famous artist Jakie Chan escape from an explosion, there will have different angle shot like high-angle shot, low-angle shot or bird’s-eye view. In the Monster House, when the dynamic explosion there have some of the camera angles, to show the area of explosion or the people who involve in the explosion.
The last of the sub-genre is adventure. The adventure type of movie is related to the main character that wants to achieve or research something. When in the process, they will face some crisis or challenge. Same as the Monster House, while the main characters want to destroy the heart of Monster House, they almost got eaten by the Monster House. They find out some things that in the underground of the house and the green colour in this place make us feel that the mystery of the place.
About the story, the little boy named D.J. Walters, who was spying his neighbour Mr. Horace Nebbercracker because of the cruel action. One day, D.J. Walters and his friend Chowder go into the lawn of Mr. Horace because want to pick up the ball. Mr. Horace comes out from his house and feels very angry, he catches up D.J. Walter. Suddenly, Mr. Horace was suffering a heart attack and taken away by the ambulance. They pick up the key that drops from Mr. Horace pocket. After Mr. Horace left, the house becomes a monster house that would eat the people near to it. They save the girl who named Jenny Bennett from the Monster House and decides to destroy the heart of the house. However, they fail to destroy the heart and escape. Mr. Horace comes back to the house and tells them the fact of the house. Mr. Horace decides to destroy the monster house and give the dynamic to D.J. Walters. Finally, they succeeded in destroying the house.
In conclusion, Monster House was created by some of the genres, the main of the genre is horror and the sub-genre is action, comedy and also an adventure. The combination of the genres makes the movie become interesting and make the audience focus on the scene. I think this is a successful movie because it used lots of film techniques.
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