1. Film title REC
Director Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Year 2007
Genre Horror
Area of Analysis
Codes and conventions
Setting
Character
Themes
Example
Technical feature (Camera/sound/mise
en scene/ editing)
Conforms to genre? Y/N
Tools, Guns, Handcuffs,
Syringes, Crucifix,
Microphone (Convention of
reality TV)
Low Key Lighting
Apartment Block,
Fire Station
Death, Contagion, demonic
Possession, entrapment,
Survival
Angela: - Protagonist
- Young Female
Pablo: -Male Protagonist
-Never seen on
screen
Manu – Protagonist
-Hero
Antagonist – Unseen
-Infection itself
-Monster
Entrapment
Demonic Possession
Contagion
Survival
Satire – Something is
mocked in a critical way,
reality documentary
Mise en scene
Yes
Mise en scene
Mise en scene
Mise en scene
Yes
Yes
No
Mise en scene/Editing/Camera/Sound
Yes
No
No
No
Mise en scene/Editing/Camera/Sound
Yes
No
Breaks conformity? Y/N
If yes, how?
“Final Girl”
- Manu – Hero Character,
dies at the end
- Pablo – Only hear his
voice
– Only see the main
monster at the end
Starts as a reality TV
program, ends as found
footage

2. Narrative
Iconography
Ideological message
Conventional linear
Narrative –Straight forward
story, „Beginning, middle
and end‟
Fragmented Narrative –
Rewinds and fast-forwards,
story becomes broken up.
Horror – The Final Girl
- Props – Crucifix
- Guns
- Syringe
Gore – Zombies
Reality TV – Microphones
- Interviews
Editing
Death is inevitable
Express the shallow
nature of reality TV
Yes
No
Mise en scene
Yes
Mise en scene
No
Editing
yes
Reality TV isn‟t usually part
of a horror