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The document discusses common stock elements found in the film genres of horror, comedy, and thriller. It provides examples of stock characters, plots, locations, and props for each genre, such as "creepy killers" and cabins in the woods for horror; "loveable idiots" and high schools for comedy; and "heroes", "villains", and gadgets for thrillers.
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The purpose of the horror genre is to elicit fear, panic, and alarm in viewers by putting them on the edge of their seats wondering what will happen next. Sound is particularly effective at creating a sense of fear through sharp, high-pitched noises. Horror films often center around some change in circumstances that sets the story in motion, such as a person moving to a new neighborhood. The Purge is used as an example of how one event, such as all laws being suspended for 12 hours, can lead to generic horror conventions like death and violence. Viewers enjoy horror films because they like seeing the protagonist succeed against tough odds while experiencing fear and panic along with the characters. Descent shows a group endangered by blind,
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Generic codes and conventions in teen horror movies include:
1) Violence, darkness, blood, killing and death are common elements expected to be seen.
2) Weapons are often used as trademarks of the killer and to create vulnerability in victims. A Nightmare on Elm Street uses knives as the killer's weapon.
3) Violence is often paired with darkness to create suspense and show victims as trapped with no escape.
4) Films typically follow the plot of teenagers in jeopardy who die one by one, with one sole survivor. Deaths are unique but not overly graphic to suit the target teenage audience.
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The document discusses various stock elements that are commonly found in the horror genre. It identifies stock characters like "The Jock" and "The Good Girl" that often appear. It also outlines stock plots, themes, issues, locations, props and signifiers. For example, stock plots include someone seeing things others cannot and warnings being ignored. Abandoned houses and woods are common stock locations. Props that signify death or tension, like masks or knives, also frequently appear. The document concludes that music and sounds, such as distorted notes and silence followed by loud noises, are used in horror to create fear and tension in viewers.
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Horror sub genres
Slasher films often depict graphic violence committed by a serial killer using a single weapon, and may contain elements of crime films. Examples given are Friday the 13th and Halloween. Supernatural horror involves paranormal elements like demons, ghosts, and takes place frequently in houses. Comedy horror aims to scare audiences but also make them laugh at their fears using dark humor. The document then lists various horror subgenres and provides an analysis comparing the comedy horror films Gremlins and Tucker and Dale vs Evil, noting their different approaches to the genre.
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Generic codes and conventions in teen horror movies include:
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The document discusses various stock elements that are commonly found in the horror genre. It identifies stock characters like "The Jock" and "The Good Girl" that often appear. It also outlines stock plots, themes, issues, locations, props and signifiers. For example, stock plots include someone seeing things others cannot and warnings being ignored. Abandoned houses and woods are common stock locations. Props that signify death or tension, like masks or knives, also frequently appear. The document concludes that music and sounds, such as distorted notes and silence followed by loud noises, are used in horror to create fear and tension in viewers.
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Slasher films often depict graphic violence committed by a serial killer using a single weapon, and may contain elements of crime films. Examples given are Friday the 13th and Halloween. Supernatural horror involves paranormal elements like demons, ghosts, and takes place frequently in houses. Comedy horror aims to scare audiences but also make them laugh at their fears using dark humor. The document then lists various horror subgenres and provides an analysis comparing the comedy horror films Gremlins and Tucker and Dale vs Evil, noting their different approaches to the genre.
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Different types of thrillers
The document discusses different types of thrillers, including psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, romantic thrillers, supernatural thrillers, and action thrillers. Psychological thrillers involve mental manipulation and battle of wits between characters. Crime thrillers focus on law-breaking and feature police prominently. Romantic thrillers combine relationships with thriller elements. Supernatural thrillers incorporate otherworldly elements into the suspense. Action thrillers contain frequent violent and bloody action scenes.
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This document discusses different genres of films including action/adventure, romance, horror, science fiction/fantasy, and comedies. It provides conventions for action/adventure films such as exotic locations, a quest or treasure, love interests, and believable characters. Horror film conventions include stereotypical settings, monster sounds, weapons/blood, and character archetypes. Romance genres focus on love stories and relationships, typically featuring a forbidden or disapproved relationship, miscommunication between couples, and strong female characters. The document notes the filmmakers chose to make a romance genre film focusing on the loss of a childhood friendship and reconnecting later in life.
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Horror films seek to elicit negative emotions in viewers by playing on primal fears. They often include startling scenes and may overlap with fantasy, supernatural, and thriller genres. A horror film trailer typically features blood, screaming, death, crime, murder, eerie music, weapons, masked or threatening characters, ghosts, dark lighting, and isolated locations to set an ominous tone. While analyzing genre conventions allows one to produce a horror trailer, creating a truly scary and successful film on a small budget that could compete with major studio horrors may prove challenging.
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Horror movies commonly use certain conventions and themes including jump scares, darkness, mystery, and themes of good vs. evil. The characters typically include a main protagonist or victim, villain such as a monster or killer, stupid teenagers who are often killed, and creepy children or other characters. Jump cuts are often used to build suspense and tension before providing a scare to the audience. Horror films also follow similar plot structures and conventions, such as a protagonist facing a problem to save someone or be with a loved one. Most horror movies are rated 18 or over due to blood and gore, attracting an audience of males aged 25-40 seeking to be scared.
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A mental hospital is attacked by a murderer who hates the mentally disabled. The staff are killed and the patients must work together to defeat the killer and escape. The hero is a schizophrenic man named Daniel Myers, played by Jesse Eisenberg. The killer's identity is unknown but would be played by Rory McCann. A woman with depression, played by Margot Robbie, is the love interest. Guillermo Del Toro would direct. The target audience is 18-25 year olds interested in slasher films. The setting is an isolated, old Victorian mental institution in Scotland or Germany.
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Horror movies commonly use certain conventions and themes to scare audiences. Jump scares, creepy music, gore and themes of good vs evil are frequently employed. Characters typically include a male protagonist, villainous monster, and imperiled female victim. Costumes and makeup are also used stereotypically to identify characters' roles. Film techniques like jump cuts are utilized to startle viewers. Horror films generally follow a similar plot structure where the protagonist faces a growing threat they must overcome. Most are rated 18 or over to allow full use of frightening elements.
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R&B
R&B music videos typically feature artists dressed in designer clothes and heavy gold jewelry, often without shirts to show tattoos. Women wear minimal, flashy outfits and bold makeup. Videos take place in nightclubs, on city streets, or in mansions and focus on the artists. The genre uses muted colors like black and white with gold accents. Common themes are money, relationships, crime, and sexuality, portrayed through millionaire lifestyles, gangsters, and drug imagery meant to build the artist's persona. Expensive cars and jewelry flaunt wealth.
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An iMac to access all the necessary software. A camcorder to capture 1080p footage for a high quality
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Short film genre research (and examples); as well as research into what genre our short film 'Eighteen' is.
Genre
This document defines different film genres such as comedy, thriller, horror, documentary, and romantic comedy. It provides characteristics and conventions for some genres. Documentaries are defined as factual films using techniques like voiceovers, interviews, and archival footage to inform audiences. Teen movies often focus on coming of age, relationships, and conflicts with parents/friends. Romantic comedies typically involve a boy and girl meeting and hesitating to become involved before reuniting after one makes a grand gesture.
The Conventions of the Horror Movie Genre
The document summarizes common conventions in horror genre movies, including the use of knives, blades, blood, and severed limbs by killers. As the movie progresses, more is typically learned about the killer, who picks off characters one by one in dark, isolated locations like alleys or abandoned buildings. Horror movies often feature a cowardly character, a brave character, a smart character, and one who makes dumb decisions. There is usually a killer going after someone for personal reasons or because they are trapped, though some movies have no killer and instead feature a cursed main character. Sound plays a big role, with victims' screams heard, and some killers find humor in torturing and killing their victims.
Popular Short film genres
This document provides examples of short films from different genres including romance, comedy, sci-fi/fantasy, drama, animation/stop motion, horror, documentary, film noir, action/adventure, epics/historical, and gay & lesbian. For each genre, 3-4 short film titles are listed along with brief 1-2 sentence descriptions. Additionally, two websites for finding short films from various genres are referenced at the end.
Presentation of initial idea
The trailer will begin with two dim teenage boys walking through the woods on their phones. When one loses reception, darkness falls and they decide to head home, but catch glimpses of a masked man watching them. As noises circle them, they run and hide in a tree, but are chased by the man. The bulk of the action will show them fighting the villain through heavy montage editing. The trailer will end by one boy removing the man's pig mask.
The trailer will be a comedy-horror genre parody, using conventions like gallows humor and spoofing horror cliches. It parodies predictable horror movie plots where victims make dumb decisions.
Thriller conventions 2015
The document discusses the genre conventions of thriller films. It defines thrillers as films that create intense emotions of apprehension and exhilaration through suspense, tension, and excitement. Thrillers include many subgenres like mystery, crime, psychological thrillers, and political thrillers. They often depict society as dark, corrupt, and dangerous. Common thriller techniques include plot twists, red herrings, cliffhangers, mysteries investigations, crimes, kidnappings, and psychological themes of stalking and mind games. Example thriller films mentioned include Inception, Fight Club, Psycho, and The Silence of the Lambs. Famous thriller directors named include Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma, and David Fincher.
New Post Genre Research
This document summarizes several common film genres including horror, romance, and science fiction. For horror films, it discusses typical settings, themes of haunting, demons, and gore. Romance films often depict relationships through conventions like weddings and arguments. Science fiction uses futuristic settings in space or alternative worlds. The document concludes that a horror/thriller opening would be most interesting and easiest to produce for the constraints of filming on location.
Genre research
Thrillers originated from ancient epic poems that used similar narrative techniques to modern thrillers. Alfred Hitchcock directed some of the earliest thriller films in the 1920s-1930s. Popular thriller film companies include Hammer Film Productions and Warner Bros, while directors like Hitchcock, Nolan, Spielberg, and Scorsese regularly make thrillers. The genre focuses on suspense, danger, and building tension to a climactic ending, exemplified in films like The Silence of the Lambs, North By Northwest, and The Great Escape. Thrillers often use plot twists and cliffhangers, and subgenres include action, comedy, crime, horror, psychological, and spy thrillers.
Introduction to thriller final
Powerpoint that outlines the genre of Thriller films. It includes key information of the technical and narrative elements as well as alist of thriller directors and films
No You Can't Say Thumbs Up!
This document provides guidance on traditional and alternative styles for movie reviews. It discusses key elements of a traditional review such as an introductory lead paragraph, condensed plot synopsis, background information on the film/creators, and abbreviated arguments evaluating what works and does not work in the film. It also presents examples of alternative review styles like two-sentence reviews, genre reviews, and 100-word reviews. The document emphasizes establishing a unique voice and focusing evaluations on what the film aims to accomplish and whether it succeeds at that.
Presentation of initial idea
The document presents an initial idea for a comedy-horror film trailer. The trailer will follow two dim teenage boys who get lost in the woods at night. They encounter a masked man who begins chasing them. The trailer will use elements of horror, like glimpses of the chase and boys fighting the villain, but will do so in a comedic way. It will end by revealing the identity of the villain. The genre is described as comedy-horror, which combines elements of both genres through tactics like gallows humor and spoofing horror clichés. Films that are being parodied and analyzed for their conventions include typical slasher films like Halloween and Blair Witch Project.
Teeth&the slumber party massacre
The document summarizes and compares two horror films:
1) "Close Your Eyes For a Second And.. Sleep Forever" from 1982 which was intended to be feminist but portrayed women as inferior and upheld Freud's theory of male sadism and female voyeurism. It used conventions of the horror genre.
2) "Teeth" from 2008 which was a feminist horror-comedy with a female protagonist who could defend herself. It subverted expectations by having women receive gratification from male pain instead of the other way around.
Both films are analyzed based on psychological theory, direction, genre, and how they portray gender through camerawork, sound, and mise-en-scene.
Analysis
Genre refers to the style or category that a work of art, music, or film falls into. Not all art is the same, so works are often grouped into different genres like romance, comedy, horror, or rock and R&B music. Each genre has certain common characteristics that distinguish it from others. For example, action films typically include violence, fighting, car chases and shootings, while horror films usually involve scary characters, uncommon storylines, isolated settings, and a dark history associated with the location.
Horror genre research
In horror movies, groups typically consist of 5 people - two couples and a friend. Locations are often remote areas without easy access to help. Common themes include masked killers, paranormal threats, and monsters. Generic conventions include isolated locations, dark cinematography, dumb blonde victims, cocky male characters dying first, and handheld camera work to build tension.
Thriller conventions
The document discusses the genre conventions of thriller films. It defines thrillers as films that create intense emotions of apprehension and exhilaration through the use of suspense, tension and excitement. Thrillers include many subgenres like mystery, crime, psychological films and use techniques like plot twists, red herrings and cliffhangers. Some common thriller elements discussed include criminal characters, menaced victims, corrupt societies, investigations and psychological themes. The document also lists example thriller films and directors known for the genre.
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Film genre research
- 1. FILM GENRE RESEARCH Nath Simmonette
- 2. HORROR Examples of Stock Characters; “Creepy Killer”, “Helpless Female”, “Heroic Male” Examples of Stock Plots; Slasher films, Gothic Horror, Psychological Horror Examples of Stock Locations; Cabin in the woods, Haunted houses Examples of Stock Props & Signifiers; Knives, Crossbows, Fog, Thunderstorms
- 3. COMEDY Examples of Stock Characters; “Loveable Idiot”, “Hot Girl”, “Idiotic best friend” Examples of Stock Plots; Parody films, Slapstick comedy films, Black comedy films Examples of Stock Locations; High School, The Office, The Slums Examples of Stock Props & Signifiers; Alcohol, Dancing, Diegetic Dance Music
- 4. THRILLER Examples of Stock Characters; “Hero”, “Villain”, “Sidekick” Examples of Stock Plots; Secret Agent films, War films, Racing films Examples of Stock Locations; Nuclear Missile launch rooms, Warzones, Racing strips Examples of Stock Props & Signifiers; Guns, Dramatic Non-Diegetic Music, Gadgets, Fast Paced Editing