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1. Horror conventions
Assignment 29

2. Slasher conventions
Plot :
• Group of teenagers
• Slowly picked off by Antagonist
• Main characters are last to die
• normally 1/2 survivors
Character representations :
• Quiet character often secretly the killer
• Most confident characters often killed off early
• Victims are often teenagers
Setting :
• College party
• standard middle class house

3. Slasher conventions
Editing:
• Temporal ellipses
• Match on action
Camera:
• Close up
• Shot reverse shot
• Tracking shot
• Canted angle
• Establishing shot

4. Slasher conventions
MES:
Antagonist - Dark clothing, potentially cape or hood. Presented in dark lighting.
Protagonist – Modern day clothing, potentially sports/football wear to show
popularity
Narrative structure:
• Normally only 1-2 antagonist’s
• Numbers of protagonist’s slowly decreases as killed off
• all efforts will be given to survive
• normally antagonist will be caught by end of film/series