Genre-Horror

Genre conventions work- HorrorSound

• Loud tense music• Thunder and lightening• Rain

• Screams • Crying

• Scraping • Chainsaws • Banging

• Heavy breathing• Phones ringing • laughing

These are all used to show tension build up at a certain point in the film.

These would be used to show pain and danger within the film.

Genre conventions work- HorrorEditing

• Continuity- It is the process of cutting to keep the flow of the shot together as fluidly as possible not showing the whole footage.

• Jump Cut -a type of editing transition that is very fast which gives a sense of confusion in space and time. It is usually used to keep the flow of continuity.

• Motivation-Audience Motivation, Story Motivation, Physical Motivation, Character Motivation and General Film Motivation

• Montage- is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information.

• Parallel-editing - These terms refer to simultaneous occurrences in films. For instance, when you see a woman running down the street, and then it cuts to a man sitting at a restaurant eating alone. He looks at his watch. Then we cut back to the woman.

• 180-degree point of view shot-is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene

• Shot reverse shot-is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character

• Proving -is used in TV and films and it is beastly about when the audience find out about certain information

• Cross cutting- is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time in two different locations

Genre conventions work- HorrorMise en scene

Lighting• Dark • Flashes of

light • Shadows

Props• Chainsaw • Knife • Baseball bat • Rope • Cars

Costume• Fake blood• Masks • Dark

clothing

Genre conventions work- HorrorCinematography

• Shoot Through Things- a wide shot taken from outside the house could be more powerful, it shows isolation of the character.

• Use haze- this will help set a unique and mysterious mood to your scenes.• Unique angles- such as tilts and canted, this can set an unsettling feeling

for the viewer• Handheld shots- have shots of the characters feet running away from

something • Close up shots- this shows emotion through the characters expressions

Genre conventions work- HorrorConventional plot

• Someone dies • Someone is captured • Someone is possessed • Mind tricks • Haunted house• Family go missing • Mysterious things go

missing• Reincarnation

Genre conventions work- HorrorConventional locations/setting

• House- old, run down building • Church- place of worship, old

and historical, grave yard• Woods- dark, gloomy, • Abandoned building- old

factory, old hospital• Cabin- set within a woods,

isolated, run down• Abandoned theme park- broken

rides, old figures around

Genre conventions work- HorrorConventional characters

• Antagonist • Protagonist • Young child• Animals • Elderly • Psychopath• Ghosts • Vampires • Werewolves• Extra-terrestrials • Serial killers

Representations of Females in horror films

Women are represented in a variety of ways in films, depending on the genre and narrative that it's based. Often women are represented as vulnerable, naïve and powerless or as hypersexual damsels in distress, Often gender is crucial in horror films, not long ago the only role women had in horror films was tottering around our screens half naked before screaming and being brutally murdered by the killer, showing that a lot of Hollywood films differentially use women to serve men. Women are traditionally represented as the victims and men represented as the monster and hero.

Narrative

A horror thriller is a film that pursues a goal to provide thrills and keep the audience interacted and hanging off the edge of their seats. Tension usually occurs when the main character (usually a female) is stuck in a threatening positon where they have to make difficult choices on whether they run away and escape the protagonist or whether they try and face it. The character then escapes the problem and the protagonist disappears.

Sub-genre conventions research Psychological (surreal) This subgenre is usually written from a tight viewpoint. Is the protagonist really seeing terrible things, perhaps battling against human conspiracies and/or demonic possession. Surreal horror incorporates bizarre imagery, often drawn from vivid, threatening dreams.

Supernatural (demons, zombies, etc.) These stories focus on various types of monster from 'beyond,' persistently ruining the lives of a suffering humanity. Often the setting is an isolated village, where the protagonist becomes stranded

Paranormal is a subgenre with mortal heroes. Such tales emphasize a difficult battle against evil supernatural encroachment, whether by a saintly exorcist or high-tech ghostbusters

Slasher Film Often revolves around a serial killer who systematically murders people through violent means

Comedy HorrorCombines the elements of comedy and horror fiction. The comedy horror genre almost always inevitably crosses over with the black comedy genre