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- 2. Jordan Peele • Jordan Peele is an actor, writer and director. He has been reffered to as 'This generations Alfred Hitchcock' by the New York Times. Best known for his comedy work with Keegan-Micheal Key he made his directorial debut with the horror film Get Out. Peele has expressed his love for the horror genre ever since he was a child. After directing Get Out he went on to create the psychological horror Us and produced Candyman, which is due to release in 2021. Peele often references classic horror films such as the Shining in his work. • Peeles 2 films are very similar in the way they are both psychological horror films, including POC actors as the main roles, which is rarley seen in the horror genre. He also deals with topics like white-on-black violence, and the comodification of their bodies, especially in Get Out. Peeles mix of comedy and horror is also one of his main things that make his films unique to him, as this concept is not new, but the way he does it makes the films enjoyable to watch. • Cinamatography wise Peeles films leave you feeling like something deeper is going on. You get a sense of things happening out of shot that you don’t really get with other films in this genre, eventually this is revealed later on. The framing of the shots is often intense and often we experience a main character POV, which makes us feel like we are alongside the character throughout the film, which again is done a lot better than most films in this genre.
- 4. Stanley Kubrick • Stanley Kubrick was an American director, producer and screenwriter. Born on the 26th July 1928. Before creating film, he worked as a photographer for Look magazine in the late 40s. Whilst his career in photography was short, it inspired him to create films, in 1956 he made his first major Hollywood film, The Killing, after a series of productions on a much smaller budget. Although Kubrick didn’t make horror films, he created genre defining thrillers in films like The Shining. • His directing style was very much unique, especially at the time. He didn’t like to show his own personal views in his films, and showed an inner struggle through the characters, and this was often seen from different perspectives. He said his films were like popular music, that they could be appreciated by everyone. "Emotions and subconscious are far more similar than their intellects." • The way he portrayed characters in films was definitive for the time too, with many defining personalities throughout his films, such as the way Jack is shown in the shining. He also explores the objkectification of woman in his films, especially in Lolita and Clockwork Orange. • Kubricks use of camerawork makes his films unique too, with his use of zooms, often in strange places, or very fast or slow. Wide angle shots were also commonly used in his films, to show the veiwer more than what they would normally see in a regular film.
- 6. Alfred Hitchcock • Sir Alfred Hitchcock was a British director, producer and screenwriter. He was most known for creating horror films such as Psycho and The Birds. He was nicknamed The Master of Suspense. He didn’t have that much of an educational background in film and aspired to become an engineer. He worked as a technician for Henley Telegraph Company to support his family before becoming a title card designer at Famous Players-Laskey. • Hitchcock started making very low budget silent productions at the beginning of his career, then moving onto bigger productions like Psycho and The Birds as he gained more notoriety in the film world. His film Vertigo has now replaced Citizen Kane as the best British film of all time. • His style of directing is known as the Hitchcockian style, and includes heavily relying on visual aspects, due to his time in silent film, where all he must rely on was visuals. He often includes a major plot twist throughout most of his films, which made them stand out from much more linear plots of the time. He also liked to make the main character seem very normal and regular, so the viewer could relate to this, and then put them in situations that were life threatening or very dangerous, Physico is an example of this.
- 8. Horror Genre Theory • Thematically horror is one of the most repetitive genres of film, with the main plot being murder or paranormal activity, lots of death and often no happy ending. Filmmakers often use empathy as a tool to engage the viewer and make them feel guilty or bad for the antagonist, usually giving them a sad backstory as to why they are doing what they are doing, such as domestic abuse, or vengeance. Whilst most murder- based horrors are dealing with revenge, paranormal/ghost driven films tend to deal with loss and broken bonds. The whole genre of horror is very susceptible to being a cliché, but directors now use that to twist and play with the audience and show them things they don’t excpect. • "If movies are the dreams of the mass culture... horror movies are the nightmares" Stephen King (?) • "There are many ways to define a genre as there are theories of meaning, but three are most commonly used. The first defines a genre by a shared set of conventions" Grossberg, p.160.
- 10. I have chosen to research these directors because they have made classic horrors that have gained cult followings or created horror films that have pushed new boundaries in the genre. Some of the scenes from the director's films that drew me to research them was the scene from Kubricks Shining where Jack breaks the door down with an axe. The famous shower scene from Hitchcock's Psycho and the sunken place scene from Peele's Get Out. The current situation with Covid could affect my work in many ways, especially if we are in a full lockdown at the time because it would be very difficult to film with others, which is necessary. I am going to plan for all eventualities, so I have a plan whatever happens at the time. I was attracted to this project because its genre is something new that I haven't explored at all, and I think it would be interesting to create a good horror film.