The document summarizes a student's research into horror film websites for a school project on codes and conventions. The student initially looked at "The Wicker Man" but could not find information due to its age. They then researched the website for "Silent Hill" which they felt had an effective style. The student analyzed the homepage, color palette, images, navigation, and interactivity of the "Silent Hill" website. Based on this, they concluded the website followed horror genre conventions and that the research would help them design their own horror film website with a similar dark color scheme and navigation bar.

1. Summary of Codes and
Conventions Research
Film Website

2. Initial Research
• Once we had decided our initial idea, we researched into
unnatural horror movies that focused around cult, human
sacrifice and religion.
• We liked the film “The Wicker Man” as a film that we could
research in to for creative ideas. However, when I came to
look at the film poster and the website, I could not find them
due to it being such an old film.
• Because of this, I looked into another film that we had looked
at, “Silent Hill”. This film is about an isolated town and so links
closely to our idea. When I looked at the poster and website I
really liked the style and so I decided to fill out the codes and
conventions based on this research.

3. Information about the film

4. Description of the homepage

5. Colour palette and layout

6. Images and tone of language

7. Navigation and other pages

8. Interactivity

9. Genre conventions

10. My opinion

11. What can I conclude from this
research?
• The research that I have done into this
website is conventional of the horror genre as
it has dark colours and sinister interactivity.
• I will use this research in the production of my
website by styling my layout in a similar way. I
think the central layout works well and I like
the way the navigation bar is at the top of the
page. This research will help me create my
mock-up for my website.