Night At The Museum

Night at the Museum is a fantasy/action film released in 2006 that was directed by Shawn Levy. The movie portrays a new night guard at the museum of natural history called Larry Daley who doesn’t realise that the exhibits come to life at night until he witnesses it firsthand. This movie consistently creates tension, fear and excitement throughout numerous scenes. A prime example of how the director Shawn Levy conveys the action and excitement in this movie is during the T-rex Chase scene. Methods such as music, camera angles and lighting are all employed to give the audience an exciting feeling, induce a sense of foreboding and create a thrilling scene.
The soundtrack and the sound effects at the beginning of the scene contributes to the eerie atmosphere by enticing the audience with diegetic and non-diegetic sounds; this instils awe, excitement and fear into the viewer. The scene opens with soft weak music and the suspicious sound of running water but when the camera cuts to the dinosaur it progresses into a deep slow instrumental sound which delivers a feeling of awe and fear to the audience. After the camera finishes the close up of the dinosaur, the tempo speeds up which alerts the audience that something exciting will happen. Additionally, once the T-rex roars it
The founding shot displays Larry standing in a lit background while the T-rex on the other hand is positioned in the rear dark end of the hallway, associating Larry as the “good guy” and the T-rex as the “bad guy”. Additionally, due to the consistently dark lighting and the prevailing colours being black and brown, this scene inherits a frightening feeling and circulates fear and anticipation amongst the viewers. To summarize, the melancholy choice of lighting and colours influence the audience to feel fear in addition to antagonizing the