2. My Magazine
Potential names: Film Reel, Movies monthly, Greatest Movies, The view
Genre: Film review, media
Examples:
Each magazine includes scenes from the movie to show off actors and potentially important scenes, they also include information on the movie and the revivers opinion on it.
In my double page spread I will need to include my own opinion on the movie and use photos to show the movie off so the reader can get a glimpse at what they could be potentially
watching.
Audience: Teens
The audience for this article is teens as the language used I most are easy to understand and are very simplistic, most articles show off celebrities and actors that the teens will recognize
so that they will want to read about the movie since their favorite actor is included.
4. The Babadook is an Australian psychological horror
film which was directed by Jennifer Kent and is her
very first film, the films story revolves around a
troubled widow named Amelia Vanke (Essie Davis)
who discovers that her son is telling the truth about a
monster that entered their home through the pages of
a children's book that she reads to him during the
early scenes of the film.
Throughout the film, not much colour is used and
most of the colour scheme consists of dark and gritty
colours to give off a sense of sadness and maybe
even depression, this fits the movies genre of
philological horror as even the colours used of every
scene are there to try and evoke a different feeling
from the viewer whether it be sadness from the lack
of colour or dread from the use of darkness and fear
of the unknown.
Fear of the unknown is quite a big aspect throughout
the film as we only get glimpses of the Babadook and
we don’t really know what it looks like till later on in
the film, because of this the film relies on the
reactions of the actors and the use of sound to instill
a sense of uneasiness and fear in the audience
through a build-up of tension, this is the reason the
Babadook’s scares are much more authentic instead
of the usual horror movie trope of jumps cares we
usually see in modern horror movie, this is why the
Babadook fits the psychological horror genre
perfectly as it makes you fear what you can’t see
In many ways, this film is about depressions and how it
effects people, for example throughout the film Amelia
begins to see the Babadook more and more with each
encounter getting more violent as she denies its existence,
this relates to depression in real life because the more its
ignored the worse it gets for the victim to deal with, the
“evil book” perfectly describe this when it reads:
“I’ll wager with you
I'll make you a bet
The more you deny
The stronger I get
You start to change
When I get in
The Babadook growing
Right under your skin
Oh come!
Come see!
What's underneath”
This is clearly linked to the fact that denying depression
allows it to take a stronger hold over the sufferer and trying
to "tough it out" is only going to worsens the problem and
give it a stronger hold over you like the Babadook dose
over Amelia near the end of the film when she allows the
monster to controller and dictate what she does and how
she acts towards her son, and this is how depression
takes over people’s lives causing them to lose/leave
friends and family behind and to hate the things they once
loved doing.
The movie uses a lot of symbolism to give subtle hints
towards the plot and what’s happening, for example
towards the end of the film a black rose is used to
symbolize death in this case it’s the death of a family dog
and the black rose is a kind of grave marker, this
reinforces the theme of death and grief throughout the film
that’s caused by the death of Amelia’s husband, the loss of
her husband is a big part of the film as she struggles to
cope without him, this is supported by her inability to let go
of her things and why the Babadook takes the form of her
The Babadook review
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