The document discusses the conventions of horror genre films including graphic content like blood and gore, evil characters, and causing fear in audiences. It then analyzes the technical elements of a horror film like fonts, camera shots, camera movement, sound, editing pace and transitions, and images. These elements like close-up shots, non-diegetic sounds, and dark colors are used to build tension and emphasize danger, fear, and isolation for the audience.

1. Anicia Brown

2.  Genre: Horror
 How it meets the conventions:
 Blood/ gore
 Evil/bad characters
 Causes fear and panic in the audience
 Death
 isolated settings

3. Camera
Shots
Fonts/Titles
Extreme close up
Uses handwriting/Sariff and printed text
Images
Establishing shot
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Image of a baby and a
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young child

4. Fonts and titles:
These were in Camera Sound:
Handwriting/ movement: it Non-Diagetic-Slow creepy
Sariff (printed uses more noises, low sound, low
text) handheld drum beat
cameras Diegetic- makes it seem
more realistic as the
characters can hear it
Camera Shot:
themselves as well as the
The camera shots uses
audience
were close- Camera
ups, extreme close angle: it used
ups, long shots & straight, low
establishing Shots and also high
angles

5. Special effects: Slow
motion
Transitions:
Fade in &
out, dissolve
Editing / Pace:
Images: Fast and slow cuts were
Denotation- picture of a used and the pace went
baby, character covered in from slow to fast
bandages
Connotation- it shows the
audience
anger, danger, torture &
abuse

6.  I think the target audience is for slightly older
teenagers and adults as they would be able to
understand it more than a younger audience.
 I know this because I have known people of a
younger age that found it hard understand and
also people of a older age the did understand

7. Fonts Titles

8. Camera Shots
Extreme Close up hand Close Up of Long Shot of
on door knob characters face character walking
• To show the action • To show audience characters • Shows what the characters
• The characters emotions action is
anticipation • Vulnerability, fear
anticipation, hot the character
is apprehensive
Long shot of • Shows the characters fear
and also shows a bit of
character entering representation of the
room character.

9. Camera movement
Camera Shaking, Zooming
in and out
• Emphasising the trembling
and fear

10. Non- Diegetic Diegetic
• Background music • Snow from the TV
• Broken • Screech from
• Off key character
• Emphasises danger • Airy randomness
• Airy • Childs swing that
• Child sounds e.g. sounds isolated (only
nursery rhymes one)
• Slow then fast pace • Children laughing
• Low sounds that sounds echoic-
• ( drum beating) (ghostly)

11. • Black and • The transitions used
white were:
• Some bits of • Wipe
it light • Flash
• Some bits of • Straight cuts
it dark • Fade in
• Slow motion • Fade out
• Fast forward
• Rewind

12. • Slow pace of character
walking at the beginning
• 20 second cut while
character is walking
• Fast zoom when she opens
the door
• With a cut cut cut at the
end

13. Images
• Water with the blood
• Tree
• Chairs

14.  Gives the audience details of the puzzle
 Gives the audience representation- young
blonde white girl, school girl, venerable.
 Colours:
 Black
 White
 Grey
 Blue
 Cold & airy
 Low key