Techniques Used In The Movie Gremlins

The movie Gremlins is a 1984 comedy with horror mixed together to create a funny and scary movie. Some of the characters include Hoyt Axton, Don Steele, and Dick Miller just to name a few. This movie was set around 1950 with in Chinatown and the United States.
In this movie the boy’s dad find a mogul named Gizmo that came from china town, he thought of his son to give gizmo as a gift but, with the strict rules from the owner's son who sold the mogul to the man for $300 tells the man there are rules that must be followed; never get him wet, never feed after 12am, and don’t let him be exposed to light. Just when you think it’s easy to follow the rules, it's not that easy with the human mind curious as it is, you will find the curiosity leads to some very crazy things that are unimaginable.

When making a film with this dark of a theme and setting you need ways to lighten it up using background music in as a build up to the climax.

There are ways you use sound and video, it all has to be together to make the punch line perfect, when the movie played scary music it was obvious that something was about to go down. From using a dark space with low light should have contrast of black and white with a mix of color like during the movie theater scene it was dark only light and contrast from the projector. While using vibrant color with flashes of white, where in the candle lit scene, it is not realistic at the beginning with such low light for an inventor of his

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On to set design is huge part of any movie if the set doesn’t fit the time place the character looks bad. The set used in gremlins was very well designed for the time period. As far as sound wise the sound was excellent because it sounded how it should sound in a movie. What a normal movie sound like is a voice with no effects such as a high pass filter or compressors for the low squeaky voices of the mogul. Sound effects are huge part, they are 3rd in line of sound and video. When an explosion happens, it should look real and sound like a real bomb, the part that really threw me off, was when the natural gas was on and paper on fire, but nothing happened. Most of the time you see a spark with electricity and the whole set blows up not in this movie it takes two minutes.
But, overall the movie was a good movie, it was a quality movie and was done well with sound, video, and lighting. The camera operators shot very well. When watching this movie do it in the pitch black because you won’t have a glare from anything else, also don’t watch on a full stomach could make you sick. The final part of the movie is where they blow up the theater and drown the last gremlin. Which leaves one mogul to keep and hand back to the inventor who came and picked up gizmo and took the little guy back with him. Finally, I would give this movie a 3 out 5.