Exploring genre

Horror

What is a horror film?

Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction

from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Horror films

often feature scenes that startle the viewer. They may overlap with the

fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres.

Genre conventions in a trailer

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Blood

Screaming

Death

Crime

Murder

Eerie Music

Weapons

Masked people/clowns

Threatened characters

Ghosts

Dark lighting

Isolated locations

Good vs evil

Could I produce a horror film

trailer?After analysing other horror film trailers and looking at the genre

conventions I have decided that it would be possible for me to create a

horror film trailer. However, horror films can be highly subjective and

need to be very good/scary to be successful, this would put pressure

on my production company as creating a film to compete with award

winning horrors on a small budget may prove difficult.

Mise en scene wouldn't be too difficult as filming at night and make up

for things such as cuts and blood would work well.