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This document discusses conventions of the horror genre. It notes that conventions like lighting are used to create mystery and suspense. Horror films are designed to frighten, cause dread, and evoke hidden fears while entertaining. Common settings include isolated places like woods, hotels, and hospitals. Technical elements like camera angles and point-of-view shots increase fear. Visual styles often use dark colors and iconic monsters. Narrative structures typically involve disrupting equilibrium, restoring it with differences, and including protagonists and villains. Character types include victims, villains, and stupid teenagers. Themes commonly explored include fear, death, and the unknown.
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Conventions of the horror genre include technical codes like lighting and camera work that aim to frighten and cause dread in audiences. Common settings are isolated or abandoned places that connote fear, like farms, hotels, or forests. Iconography also helps identify the genre, using dark colors, weapons, and monsters. Narrative structures typically involve a protagonist on a mission to defeat a villain, like a serial killer, while following conventions like immoral teenagers being killed.
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Thriller movies use codes and conventions to create tension and excitement in viewers. Technical codes like camerawork and symbolic codes showing a character's feelings through their actions both provide meaning. Conventions are generally accepted ways of doing things in a genre. For example, side lighting is conventionally used in horror movies to create mystery and suspense. Thrillers commonly use plot twists, red herrings, cliffhangers, and depict society as dangerous with crime and violence to promote moods of anxiety and uncertainty. Technical elements include quick cuts, camera angles, music to build tension, and strategic use of lighting, mirrors, and chase scenes. Common subgenres are mystery, crime, and psychological thrillers, each with their own
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The document defines codes and conventions used in psychological thriller films. Codes are systems of signs that create meaning, including technical codes like camera work and symbolic codes like character positioning. Conventions are techniques commonly used within a genre, like using low lighting to create shadows in thrillers. The rest of the document discusses common codes and conventions in psychological thrillers, such as villains having horrific deaths, victims being vulnerable, heroes being tested physically and psychologically, themes of perception and psyche, and the use of dreary colors, mirrors as props, shaky or frantic camera work, and low lighting.
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The document discusses conventions and technical codes commonly found in horror genre films. Some key elements mentioned include isolated or abandoned settings like forests, houses, or hospitals that connote fear; the use of camera angles, lighting, sounds, and editing to build suspense and tension; common props like weapons or masks; and character archetypes like the victim, villain, or police officers involved. Narrative structures frequently follow a formula where a killer returns to prey on immoral teenagers, with one survivor, and themes often deal with good versus evil, the supernatural, or madness.
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The document discusses conventions and technical codes commonly found in horror genre films. Some key elements mentioned include isolated or abandoned settings like forests, houses, or hospitals that connote fear; the use of camera angles, lighting, sounds, and editing to build suspense and tension; common props like weapons or masks; and character archetypes like the victim, villain, or police officers involved. Narrative structures frequently follow a formula where a killer returns to prey on immoral teenagers, with one survivor, and themes often deal with good versus evil, the supernatural, or madness.
Horror genre conventions
The document discusses conventions and technical codes commonly found in horror genre films. Some key elements mentioned include isolated or abandoned settings like forests, houses, or hospitals; the use of camera angles, lighting, and sound effects to build suspense and fear; common props like weapons or masks; and character archetypes like the victim, villain, or police officer. Narrative structures frequently involve a killer or monster pursuing teenagers or others, with themes exploring good versus evil, the supernatural, or science experiments gone wrong.
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The document discusses conventions and technical codes commonly found in horror genre films. Some key elements mentioned include isolated or abandoned settings like forests, houses, or hospitals; the use of camera angles, lighting, and sound effects to build suspense and fear; common props like weapons or masks; and character archetypes like the victim, villain, or police officer. Narrative structures frequently involve a killer or monster pursuing teenagers or others, with themes exploring good versus evil, the supernatural, or science experiments gone wrong.
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The document discusses common codes and conventions used in horror movie trailers. It outlines conventions in narrative structure, camerawork, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, and character representation. For narrative, horror trailers typically follow a three-act structure and use semiotics to introduce characters and enigma codes. Camerawork employs techniques like handheld shots and high angles. Mise-en-scene features isolated settings and low-key lighting. Editing uses slow pacing initially and quick cuts later. Sound incorporates diegetic effects and non-diegetic music. Characters usually feature helpless female victims and vulnerable youth.
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The document discusses conventions for post-apocalyptic horror film trailers based on research. It identifies several key conventions including fast-paced editing to create chaos; isolated and abandoned settings; weapons used for violence; and dangerous antagonists that threaten the protagonists. Musical conventions include a loud, tense soundtrack. Visual conventions include establishing shots of desolate settings, and cinematography like low angles. By including these common elements and themes of danger, violence, and survival, the author's film trailer will appeal to audiences and fit within the genre.
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Horror films seek to elicit negative emotional reactions through scenes that startle viewers and themes involving the macabre and supernatural. They often deal with viewers' nightmares and fears of the unknown through the intrusion of evil forces or events, commonly supernatural in origin. Common horror elements include ghosts, monsters, demons, gore, and serial killers. Subgenres include slasher films focusing on graphic violence and gore, psychological horror playing on beliefs and emotions, and supernatural horror featuring ghosts.
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- 1. The Conventions Of Horror Genre
- 2. Why are conventions important? Codes and conventions are used together in any study of genre – it is not enough to discuss a technical code used such as camera work, without saying how it is conventionally used in a genre. For example, the technical code of lighting is used in some way in all film genres. It is a convention of the horror genre that side and back lighting is used to create mystery and suspense – an integral part of any horror movie.
- 3. Horror films are designed to: Frighten & panic Cause dread &alarm Evoke our hidden worst fears Captivate & entertain us in a liberating experience Often conclude in a terrifying shocking finale
- 4. Settings:
- 5. Locations for any good horror genre film could be: Isolated Places Woods Creepy Hotels Empty cabins Basements Grave yards Hospitals corridors
- 6. Technical Codes: Camera work is very expensive and not natural; high and low an angle connotes fear. POV shots are important because they allow the audience to see the world from the monsters eyes. Sometimes framework uses depth of field, makes it harder to see the monster creeping up.
- 7. Iconography: Visual style: often dark colours like red & black (links to evil, blood and danger etc.) Common objects include: weapons, masks, icons of the supernatural/religious The iconography of the monsters helps to connote extreme fear, disgust, and terror: werewolves, vampires, mummies, Specific props can be identified with a certain villain or character (e.g. chainsaws, machetes, knifes, firearms, costumes)
- 8. Narrative Structure The state of equilibrium (state of normality – good, bad or neutral) An event disrupts the equilibrium (a character or an action) Equilibrium is restored but, because causal transformations have occurred, there are differences (good, bad, or neutral) from original equilibrium, which establish it as a new equilibrium. There’s always a ‘hero’ or protagonist, a man or a ‘final girl’ of the film, keeping with the normal conventions of the genre Some narratives are very mechanical and this is practically present in sub- genres, most noticeably ‘slasher’ films. After some event that turns the killer insane or by some childhood past or even psychotic medical issues, the villain returns to his home-town and always preys on teenagers
- 9. Character Types The main protagonist, often the ‘victim/hero’ of the movie. The villain, often a monster, mutated freak, alien or serial killer – tend to have a trademark characteristic as to how they kill Creepy children The stupid/immoral teenagers that always get killed
- 10. Themes