genre presentation

1. Genre Homework
By Callum McDonnell

2. Definition of genre
A genre is a specific type of music, film, or
writing. Your favourite literary genre might be
science fiction, and your favourite film genre
might be horor flicks about cheerleaders.

3. Ways to express genres
• Settings
• Props
• Costume
• Facial expressions
• Camera movements
• Camera angles
• Camera shots
• Characters
• Mood
• Plot
• Dialogue
• Music

4. Horror genre
• Many horror films have similar ideas and most of
them play on the audiences fears to make it more
of a scary films. Most of these horror films could
include typical stuff such as the fear of death;
fear of the dark; fear of ghosts and the
paranormal and also ideas such as settings like a
haunted house.

5. Typical conventions to find in a horror
Settings including: haunted houses, abandoned houses, mental asylums forests and
also graveyards. These are typically used to show the audience that it is a horror
movie and to create a level of fear a most people are scared of these settings.
Props include: snakes, spiders, knives, weapons, skeletons, dolls and also could be
scary masks. People typically relate these things to fear so from this they then
understand and can identify that this movie is a horror movie.
Music includes: music with a high pitch and typically music that is creating tension and
suspense as it would be building up to something. This is used to imply to the
audience that something bad might happen as the music is leading up to something
which could possibly be scary.
Costume includes: stereotypical costumes to describe the character to the audience
such as sports clothing for a athlete and a revealing top to indicate that a girl is a slut.

6. Here we can see a typical horror film character
that is following conventions as he is an athlete
and is wearing a jersey coat to show this and
show his charter through his clothes.

7. Typical conventions in horror films
Lighting would include: low key lighting to show darkness and
also flickering lights to showing the feeling of being scared and
nervousness.
Sound could include: exaggerated over the top diegetic sound to
create tension in the film as well as fast and loud diegetic sounds
to make the audience jump and get scared.

8. Here we can see the use of low key lighting used in this horror movie scene. This is to
highlight what we are meant to be looking at and scare the audience.