Genre Research US

US was a movie created by Jordan Peele as a follow up, not sequel, to his first movie Get Out. Get Out was a super successful movie in the box office which gave a very frightening twist to the racist white people america used to be overpopulated of. The follow -up to Get Out was the movie US which is about a family who has just recently moved and a demented form of their doppelgänger family begins haunting the and trying to kill them. Us is a 2019 American horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele, starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker. The film follows Adelaide Wilson (Wyong’o) and her family, who are attacked by a group of menacing doppelgängers. Common camera angles are Reverse Shots, Close up, Tracking-pan Shots, Zoom Shots, Wide Shot, Low Angle Shot, Over the shoulder Shot, Hand held Camera Horror, Birds Eye view shot, Cantered Angle. Common Lighting is Uplighting, Silhouette, Spotlighting, Underexposure, Harsh light (hard light, chiaroscuro, Prominent and projected shadow, Shooting through objects (internal frames, Shooting through elements. The common theme among all of these different lighting methods is that they all obscure or distort reality in some way. The suspense and tension that is built during a dramatic and horrifying scene keeps the audience on their toes and coming back for more. Horror films work because of the editors’ efforts and decisions. The horror genre is one place where the editor needs to meticulously work their craft in order to get a desired outcome from the audience. Even better still, a video editor can translate the lessons learned from cutting a horror piece into building dynamic tension into almost any video. In turn, the video editor hooks their audience, grabbing ahold of their attention. Common editing used in this movie is usually fade to black and straight cuts. Fading to black gives a mysterious and tense feel and may make the audience feel at unease. They suggest fear of the unknown giving the audience what they may experience in the film and tell them not everything is right, even when it seems to be. Straight cuts are very basic but allow for fast paced shots and potentially jump scares. Common sound is One unsettling and hidden “sound” that is given credit for freaking out an audience is infrasound—a low-frequency sound that cannot be heard, but literally unsettles human beings down to our bones. Some things I really enjoyed about this movie was the soundtrack. Jordan Peele is very good at picking music for these movies and is able to pick a single song that fits the movie which is the one that you recognize it by. Like Frozen has Let it Go and Into the Unknown, Us has its song as well. Some things I didn't enjoy of felt were somewhat of a let down was that it didn't meet my expectations interns of scare and "oh my god' factor as the first movie Get Out did. Jordan Peele did amazing in portraying a very eerie and creepy way but the scariness factor wasn't there for me. I still thought it was an amazing movie but it could've been done better.