Thursday, 4 December 2008

Horror Genre

I have decided to worked on the genre Horror, as this is a very interesting genre to look at.

Firstly, I studied six main key areas, these were Setting, Themes, Characters, Props, Narrative/Plot and Style. For most of these, I chose the stereotype scenarios of a horror movie. For setting I chose at night in locations such as graveyards, a forest, a ghost town and a old house. As for themes I chose Revenge, Supernatural and Psychological. For characters, there is a group of teenagers, a bloodthirsty creature and supernatural beings. For props I noticed there are usually things like knifes, skulls, masks and barbed wire.
A narrative for a horror movie would be someone taking revenge on someone who upsetted them in the past. Or teenagers are stalked by a killer for acting badly and not doing the right thing. Styles for a horror movie would consist of music being eerie, orchestral and build up to a crescendo which then suits the scene that it is played in. The mise en scene would consist of costumes of black to represent death and evil for the bad guy, and light colours to represent innocence for the person the bad guy is attacking.

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