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John Carpenter is an American film director known primarily for horror films such as Halloween, Escape from New York, and Starman. In 2010, Carpenter received a lifetime achievement award from the Freak Show Horror Film Festival. Carpenter's 2001 film The Ward featured psychological horror elements and influenced the creation of other films dealing with visions and mental health, such as portraying a woman in a psychiatric facility haunted by a dead patient, though it is ultimately revealed she has multiple personalities from past trauma.
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The document discusses the process of creating a two minute opening scene for a psychological thriller film. It outlines some typical conventions for the genre, including a main character suffering from mental illness, mind games, a sense of danger and isolation, and dark settings. The student's group incorporated some of these conventions, such as portraying the main character Sonia as suffering from neglect and isolation. Their opening scene builds tension and establishes key elements without revealing too much of the overall plot, conforming to typical conventions for thriller and psychological thriller opening scenes. They subverted one convention by portraying the female character Sonia as strong rather than weak.
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The document discusses the process of creating a two minute opening scene for a psychological thriller film. It outlines some typical conventions for the genre including a main character with a mental illness, mind games, a sense of danger and isolation, and dark settings. The student incorporated some of these conventions like a character with a mental illness and a sense of isolation. The opening scene builds tension and establishes characters and themes without revealing too much of the plot, conforming to typical conventions. It subverts one convention by portraying the female character as strong rather than weak.
Descent criteria
The film successfully changed the representation of women in horror films. All six female characters are independent and capable of escaping death, going against typical horror film stereotypes of having a smart, clumsy, and risk-taking character. Younger sister Sam plays an important role by using her medical knowledge to help another character, showing that age and ability are not tied to survival. The film also differed by having little graphic sexual content, focusing more on psychological horror than using sex as a death sentence for female characters.
The film achieved its intended purposes of being financially successful, entertaining audiences, and being scary and gory. It made money on a small budget, was entertaining even to non-horror fans, and fulfilled its goal of
Evaluation question 1 AS Media Studies
The document discusses how the student's media product uses and develops conventions of the thriller genre. It outlines several conventions thrillers typically include: credits on a black screen, close-up shots to build suspense, tracking/panning camera movements, low and high camera angles, suspenseful music, and jump cuts in editing. The student's product uses these techniques like POV shots, flashbacks, low-key lighting, and tension music. It also challenges conventions by adding deceptive mind games and unanswered questions to keep viewers engaged. Overall, the student analyzes how their work represents and develops technical conventions while also challenging audiences in ways informed by their target research.
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1) The film portrays the victim as normal and innocent, but the background story reveals she killed the stalker's parents when he was 10 and framed him, causing him to be institutionalized.
2) Both the victim and stalker become isolated from society as the stalker escapes and the victim becomes paranoid of his return.
3) The film portrays the stalker in the opening as very isolated and creepy, similar to thrillers like "Seven," using darkness, mis-en-scene, and keeping his face unseen to emphasize his isolation and strange nature.
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1) The victim in the film is portrayed as normal and innocent, but she actually killed the stalker Eugene Leonards' parents when he was 10 and framed him, causing him to be institutionalized.
2) As Eugene escapes, the victim becomes paranoid and isolated as he stalks her, portrayed through wide shots and isolating music.
3) The opening portrays the stalker as very isolated and creepy, similar to thrillers like Seven, using darkness, mis-en-scene, and hiding his face except the clear surroundings to blend in and follow the victim.
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The victim in the film is portrayed as normal but killed the stalker's parents when he was 10, framing him for the crime. As a result, the stalker was institutionalized. Now that the stalker has escaped, the victim becomes paranoid and isolated, like the stalker. The film tries to portray the victim this way through wide shots and the music used when she is fleeing.
Evaluation Question 1
The document discusses the opening sequence of a supernatural horror film created for an assignment. The opening features a young girl playing alone who sees a ghost, leaving the audience wondering what will happen next. This differs from typical horror films where the young character is usually the antagonist. The opening ends on a cliffhanger about the ghost and sets up mysteries about what happened to the babysitter and why the ghost has returned. Sound and music were used to build tension as in other supernatural horror films. The title of the film, "The Unknown Truth", was chosen partly because titles starting with "The" sound more serious for horror films.
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The document discusses how the student's media product uses and develops conventions of the thriller genre. It outlines several conventions thrillers typically include: credits on a black screen, close-up shots to build suspense, tracking/panning camera movements, low and high camera angles, suspenseful music, and jump cuts in editing. The student's product uses these techniques like POV shots, flashbacks, low-key lighting, and tension music. It also challenges conventions by adding deceptive mind games and unanswered questions to keep viewers engaged. Overall, the student analyzes how their work represents and develops technical conventions while also challenging audiences in ways informed by their target research.
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Evaluation Question 1
1) The document discusses how the filmmaker's trailer for "Broken Mind" uses horror genre conventions to attract audiences. It establishes the psychological horror genre and uses techniques like jump scares, suspense building, and collision cutting.
2) Key influences on the trailer include films like Psycho, Paranormal Activity, and Insidious that also utilize body horror, close-ups, music, and effective jump scares.
3) The trailer combines conventions of psychological, gory, and action horror genres to create a hybrid style and build anticipation through intertitles and an increasing pace culminating in a jump scare at the end.
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John Woo is a Chinese film director known for his influential action films. Some of his most notable films include A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard Boiled, and Face/Off. He pioneered new action film techniques like doves representing peace. Many directors have cited Woo as an influence, including Quentin Tarantino, Matthew Vaughn, and Gareth Evans of The Raid films. Woo continues to direct and influence the action genre today.
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This document outlines the author's research on the development of the horror genre from the 1920s to 2010. For each decade, the author analyzes one film, discussing its genre, themes, characters, narrative, techniques used, and audience appeal. The analysis of 10 films in total will help the author create an effective opening sequence by understanding how elements like protagonists, antagonists, camerawork, editing, and sound have appealed to audiences over the years.
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John Carpenter is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer known for his work in the horror, action, and science fiction genres from the 1970s-1980s. While many of his early films were commercial failures, they have since become cult classics. Carpenter has a distinctive directing style characterized by dark, minimalist visuals; eerie synthesizer music scores composed by Carpenter himself; and settings that become characters enhancing feelings of isolation, paranoia and fear. He is considered highly influential in the horror genre for pioneering techniques still used today.
Evaluation question #3
The document discusses why Warner Bros. would be a suitable media institution to distribute the author's media product. Warner Bros. is known for producing popular action, sci-fi, drama and suspense movies such as The Dark Knight Rises, Harry Potter, Inception and Gravity. The author's film is also a suspense/thriller genre. It draws inspiration from Gravity in its focus on a female lead, from Inception in its portrayal of technology both benefiting and endangering people, and from Prisoners in its tense and serious tone without background music. Warner Bros. has a history of success distributing real-world inspired suspense films, and the author's original concept linking April Fool's Day and social media
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The document discusses how the media product, a trailer for the psychological horror film "The Hanging Tree", uses and develops conventions of the horror genre and film trailers. It incorporates elements common to both psychological horror films and horror trailers, such as an isolated setting, tension-building music, and changes in pace. Body horror elements were also included briefly to appeal to fans of gory horror films. The trailer aims to draw in audiences using familiar genre techniques while putting the filmmaker's distinctive auteur influence, inspired by George A. Romero's use of body horror, on the piece.
Influential figures
Alfred Hitchcock is known as the "Master of Suspense" and directed many influential films involving psychological themes and mystery plots centered around female victims. He had trademarks like using blond actresses and including charming yet dangerous villains. Adrian Lyne also explored psychological themes and used techniques like natural lighting. Rosamund Pike's role in Gone Girl of a mysterious female protagonist and antagonist provided inspiration for the document's discussion of a film sequence involving a mentally ill female character at the center of mystery.
Media evaluation 1
1) The document discusses how the author's horror trailer uses and develops conventions of the horror genre. It includes archetypal characters like a psycho serial killer and final girl, as well as elements from films like Psycho, Dawn of the Dead, and Cloverfield.
2) Pacing and suspense are created through techniques like parallel music, shortened shots, and a jump scare ending.
3) Influences from films like Sinister, Evil Dead, and The Blair Witch Project are seen in elements like blood on a wall and a group entering an enclosed forest location.
John carpenter
John Carpenter is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer best known for horror films. The document discusses three of Carpenter's films - The Thing (1982) about alien invasion of Antarctic researchers, Big Trouble in Little China (1986) a comedy action film set in Chinatown, and his use of suspense through camera work, lighting and music rather than gore in early films like The Fog. Carpenter created atmospheres that left audiences unsure of the outcomes and used landscape shots to show humanity's smallness. His films crossed genres and attracted cult followings on re-release.
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Psycho is a 1960 horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the novel by Robert Bloch. It tells the story of Marion Crane, who is murdered by Norman Bates after stealing money at a motel he owns. The film is known for its innovative editing techniques and shocking shower scene murder of the main character. Hitchcock aimed to subvert audience expectations through twists and surprises, most notably killing off the main character early in the film. The film was a major box office success and is considered one of the most influential films in the horror genre.
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This document discusses how the media products challenge conventions of the horror genre in some ways but also follow conventions. It summarizes the key elements of the trailer, magazine, and film poster that were created for the project. The trailer challenges conventions by basing the story on a true crime but changing it, using unique title cards related to the story, and having blood drip on the title. Shot types and having a female hero/savior character also challenge norms. However, it follows conventions like having a female victim and including common magazine and poster elements.
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2) A film featuring an abusive lesbian relationship and resulting psychological visions, which may challenge conventions but face issues with audience acceptance.
3) A film about two friends where one abuses the other, who then kills their friend and becomes mentally unstable, experiencing visions. This idea has potential as it follows a proven narrative of abusive friends seen in other films.
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Props
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- 2. John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror. Notable exceptions of Halloween (1978), Escape from New York (1981) and Starman (1984). On October 10, 2010, Carpenter received the lifetime award from the Freak Show Horror Film Festival.
- 3. The Ward The film The Ward was Carpenters first film since 2001. It was released in 2011. This film featured a psychological sense as well as a horror theme. I feel this film had a great influence on creating my own film because It has given me the idea to base my film about visions and mental health. The Ward consists of a woman who had been entered into a psychiatric facility, and she believes that a dead patient who used to stay there, is haunting her. When in reality, the character has many split personalities due to a traumatic experience in her past. I felt this film could be used as an influence because I like the way the ending has a twist to it. Something the audience wouldn't’t have guessed and therefore can come under a psychological thriller as it plays a trick on the audience.