The study and application of Voyeuristic Perspectives
The following is part of my FMP Thesis.
Voyeurism originally refers to the act of snooping and spying on the private affairs of others, in which the person being watched does not know that he is being watched. The concept of voyeuristic perspectives was used extensively in Hitchcock’s films and first appeared in the form of the main perspective function in his film Rear Window.
In the horror film, the camera may apply voyeuristic perspectives from an odd Angle. The frame may be half obscured by an object, or maybe it’s like the angle from a security camera. The camera movement tends to move sideways or forward from the cover, creating a sense of the viewer’s perspective is the same as the unknown thing which is about to attack the character.
By putting the audience in the perspective of a voyeur, the audience will realize that they are not in the same space as the characters that are happening, which also makes the audience realize that there is no way to prevent what is going on in the distance.
And I incorporated this concept into my animation by the monitoring perspective. And the Under bed perspective in scene 3.
