2. An effective film opening
An effective film opening normally opens by starting of th the introduction of the
storyline which then the protagonist and the antagonist are introduced. Generally
in a horror film, people expect to see blood, gore and weapons involved what
normally a predator. This is not always a case as they like to to do this later on as
they build up tension. The lighting and angles of the camera build up tension
before showing the gore. This adds a dramatic effect as they are building up to
something.
3. Genre
Sub genres are a subcategory of a particular genre. For example, For example
you have gore which is blood, screaming and shouting, a phone ringing or
weapons being shown. The absence of icons are the things that make something
scary and or gives the perception that something more scarier or something scary
is going to happen.
4. Types of monsters in horror
The types of monsters in horror are things such as; zombies which are mutations,
witches which are classed as aliens, werewolves casted as devils, evil queens
casted as dracula's. However there is also a concept nowadays of having things
like dolls, teddies, clowns used as a monster or something to scare people with
things that are usually used to make people happy.
5. Monsters in horror
Monsters in horror films can be represented in many different ways, it usually used
depending on the fears of society as the time. For example back in 1950s they
probably had more horror films which had monsters that were draculas and
witches where as now in 2015 they will be suing mosner audhc as teddies and
clowns as monsters. The first monster in horror was a zombie and the concept
was a zombie s a human mutated and has given the perception
that they are not just monster but have emotions too and that
they are another form of a human.
6. Big hits
The most bigs hits since the genre horror came out are:
Psycho- 1960
Alien- 1979
Sleepy hollow- 1999
Halloween- -2007
The conjuring- 2013
Extinction- 2015
7. Why?
Researching the sub genre’s and the history of horror will help me with my film
opening as I will be able to learn what is used frequently as in what is popular and
what most horror films have in common that have been a hit and successful. This
is beneficial to me as I will be able to pick this similarities up and use them in my
film opening which will make my film opening interesting and event to the genre.
