Analysing codes and conventions in existing teen horror

1. Analysing
Codes and
Conventions In
Existing Teen
Horror Films
By Enilze Veizaga

2. Sound
At the beginning you can
be able to hear a metallic
sound of the chains.
In the middle of the scene the
teenage girl starts tapping her
fingers, which suggests that
she’s bored or waiting for
someone.
You can also hear the radio
but because they are in the
middle of nowhere, there’s
not signal in the car.
Camera
At the beginning of the film there’s an extreme
close-up of the chains.
A close-up of the gas station sign suggesting
something that they are close to a gas station.
Low angle car.
There’s a close up of the teenage girl.
There’s an extreme close up of a trunk but there’s
also a view point of the car. This suggest that
someone is watching them from the woods.
Long shot of a person walking towards the car but
you cannot see who I is, as it’s blurry.
Dead Mary
Conventions
• Middle of nowhere/woods
• Out of fuel
• No signal
• Someone watching
• There’s a teenage girl and boy
• They get separated
Mise-en-scene
• Girl- Shorts, revealing clothes, daily
make-up, no shoes (meaning that
she has been waiting for a while).
• Guy- he is wearing jeans and a
shirt, he also had his glasses on.

3. • Low pitch sound (evil, sinister)
• After she says ‘pull me up’ there is a noise of the guy falling
down/getting hit.
• The music gets faster when the girl is pulled up by someone.
• Then it goes louder when she sees the dead body suggesting
that she is in trouble.
Sound
• The first shot is high angle, stablishing
shot of the woods. Showing that
the scene is going to take place in
the woods.Camera
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