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The trailer for the 2016 film Blair Witch establishes an eerie atmosphere using a slowed down version of "Every Breath You Take" as background music. Scenes show teenagers entering the woods while having fun, but the unsettling music hints that something is wrong. Reviews suggest the film is very scary. The poster conveys horror themes through the use of red to symbolize blood and danger, newspapers declaring people missing, a limited color palette to reduce realism, a forest setting common to horror, and a foreground symbol suggesting crucifixion or execution.
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Horror genre analysis.
Horror movies aim to shock and scare audiences for entertainment. Younger audiences below age 12 may find some content psychologically disturbing. While horror movies often include gore and shocking scenes to frighten viewers, high quality past films also used well-written scripts and dialogue to create fear. Common settings for horror movies are spooky locations like haunted houses where monsters can lurk and threaten protagonists in the dark. Imagery in horror films is graphic and disturbing in nature, allowing audiences to experience adrenaline rushes from viewing supernatural and frightening content.
What can be taken from a horror film
Horror films translate well into other entertainment experiences beyond movies. Some examples include Fright Nights which are popular Halloween events where participants try to escape actors portraying monsters in theme park settings. Theme parks also associate themselves with horror franchises through rides themed to films like Saw that aim to invoke fear through their design and use of film props. Horror films also inspire various merchandise like t-shirts, mugs, posters and Halloween costumes featuring the films' antagonists.
Psychological horror iconography and conventions
This document summarizes conventions of the psychological horror genre based on audience feedback and research. It finds that psychological horror films typically focus on everyday situations, rely on characters' fears and hidden truths, and use nonlinear narratives with flashbacks. They feature normal antagonists and depict victims as helpless. Settings seem real to create fear that the audience could experience the same situations. The purpose is to frighten audiences with plausible plots that relate to their lives.
Psychological Horror Research
Psychological horror focuses on everyday events that could plausibly occur in real life, making the audience more cautious. It relies on the characters' beliefs, fears, and hidden truths to create horror, rather than supernatural elements. Common conventions include an ordinary killer who appears normal, mysteries around their identity, a focus on the killer's twisted mind over physical weapons, settings people can relate to like homes and hospitals, and flashbacks explaining the killer's motives. This genre often targets female victims and uses children as killers, though the document proposes breaking those conventions.
Assignment 4 genre partner project
Horror/thriller movies were first established in the early 20th century to shock, thrill and terrify audiences by bringing their worst nightmares to life. Advances in technology and special effects have changed how horrors are made over time. Nowadays, horrors are also often mixed with other genres like comedy. Common conventions of horrors include terrifying characters, disturbing unexplained behavior, helpless victims, and psychotic killers. The level of gore and special effects used varies based on the type of horror, such as supernatural, psychological, or mystery thrillers.
AS MEDIA STUDIES - Psychological Horror Codes and Conventions
Psychological horror relies on characters' fears and instability to build tension rather than overt violence. It suggests threats rather than showing them. Common techniques include low lighting, slow editing, and unsettling sounds and music. Typical settings include abandoned asylums and haunted houses. Iconography uses symbolic images to elicit emotion. Female victims are often portrayed as dumb and in need of rescue. Influential directors like Alfred Hitchcock drew out suspense through shots and unique angles.
Genre analysis
This document discusses different genres and subgenres of horror films. It begins by defining the horror genre as seeking to elicit negative emotions through primal fears inspired by authors like Poe, Stoker, and Shelley. Key elements include the macabre, supernatural, ghosts, monsters, and serial killers. Subgenres discussed include action horror, comedy horror, body horror, and psychological horror. Comedy-horror blends comedy with traditional horror themes. Teen-horror revolves around teenagers facing suspenseful situations. Monster films center on a struggle between humans and a created monster.
What is a horror movie
Horror films are designed to scare and frighten audiences by summoning their hidden worst fears through terrifying climaxes that capture attention through an intense experience. Horror movies typically consist of fear-inducing elements like death, darkness, spooky settings, disfigured monsters, suspense, ominous music, storms, and mystery to achieve their frightening effect. An example is the horror movie Hush, where a deaf woman is stalked by a killer in her isolated home.
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Horror movies aim to shock and scare audiences for entertainment. Younger audiences below age 12 may find some content psychologically disturbing. While horror movies often include gore and shocking scenes to frighten viewers, high quality past films also used well-written scripts and dialogue to create fear. Common settings for horror movies are spooky locations like haunted houses where monsters can lurk and threaten protagonists in the dark. Imagery in horror films is graphic and disturbing in nature, allowing audiences to experience adrenaline rushes from viewing supernatural and frightening content.
What can be taken from a horror film
Horror films translate well into other entertainment experiences beyond movies. Some examples include Fright Nights which are popular Halloween events where participants try to escape actors portraying monsters in theme park settings. Theme parks also associate themselves with horror franchises through rides themed to films like Saw that aim to invoke fear through their design and use of film props. Horror films also inspire various merchandise like t-shirts, mugs, posters and Halloween costumes featuring the films' antagonists.
Psychological horror iconography and conventions
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Psychological Horror Research
Psychological horror focuses on everyday events that could plausibly occur in real life, making the audience more cautious. It relies on the characters' beliefs, fears, and hidden truths to create horror, rather than supernatural elements. Common conventions include an ordinary killer who appears normal, mysteries around their identity, a focus on the killer's twisted mind over physical weapons, settings people can relate to like homes and hospitals, and flashbacks explaining the killer's motives. This genre often targets female victims and uses children as killers, though the document proposes breaking those conventions.
Assignment 4 genre partner project
Horror/thriller movies were first established in the early 20th century to shock, thrill and terrify audiences by bringing their worst nightmares to life. Advances in technology and special effects have changed how horrors are made over time. Nowadays, horrors are also often mixed with other genres like comedy. Common conventions of horrors include terrifying characters, disturbing unexplained behavior, helpless victims, and psychotic killers. The level of gore and special effects used varies based on the type of horror, such as supernatural, psychological, or mystery thrillers.
AS MEDIA STUDIES - Psychological Horror Codes and Conventions
Psychological horror relies on characters' fears and instability to build tension rather than overt violence. It suggests threats rather than showing them. Common techniques include low lighting, slow editing, and unsettling sounds and music. Typical settings include abandoned asylums and haunted houses. Iconography uses symbolic images to elicit emotion. Female victims are often portrayed as dumb and in need of rescue. Influential directors like Alfred Hitchcock drew out suspense through shots and unique angles.
Genre analysis
This document discusses different genres and subgenres of horror films. It begins by defining the horror genre as seeking to elicit negative emotions through primal fears inspired by authors like Poe, Stoker, and Shelley. Key elements include the macabre, supernatural, ghosts, monsters, and serial killers. Subgenres discussed include action horror, comedy horror, body horror, and psychological horror. Comedy-horror blends comedy with traditional horror themes. Teen-horror revolves around teenagers facing suspenseful situations. Monster films center on a struggle between humans and a created monster.
What is a horror movie
Horror films are designed to scare and frighten audiences by summoning their hidden worst fears through terrifying climaxes that capture attention through an intense experience. Horror movies typically consist of fear-inducing elements like death, darkness, spooky settings, disfigured monsters, suspense, ominous music, storms, and mystery to achieve their frightening effect. An example is the horror movie Hush, where a deaf woman is stalked by a killer in her isolated home.
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Psychological horror relies on characters' fears, guilt, and mental instability to build tension rather than graphic violence. It explores common psychological vulnerabilities and fears in a subtle way that makes audiences uncomfortable by exposing repressed parts of the human psyche. The threat in psychological horror comes from within characters rather than outside forces, exposing the evil that hides behind normality. The Shining is an archetypal example, with Jack Nicholson's slow descent into madness as the hotel caretaker becoming increasingly unsettling and climactic as he becomes the real menace, despite supernatural elements in the film.
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This document discusses the horror genre and the 1978 film Halloween. It defines horror films as depicting viewers' worst fears and the unknown. Halloween follows Michael Myers who returns to his hometown to stalk and kill people on Halloween. The film helped establish conventions for the genre such as using first-person perspectives and female heroes. It also examines posters for the film and discusses target audiences for horror, which appeals to a wide range including women who enjoy strong female characters.
Generic conventions of horror
The opening scene of The Woman in Black establishes an eerie atmosphere through its use of generic horror conventions. We see three young girls playing with dolls accompanied by unsettling music, foreshadowing danger. Their strange behavior and a mysterious figure in black hook the audience to learn more. Iconography like screaming and the veil associated with death effectively set the horror tone for the film. The target audience is likely those 25 and under who enjoy horror genres, and the film attracted viewers through its young actors like Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter.
Conventionsin horror
There are conventions that horror directors often follow that have resulted in criticisms of predictability. Settings are commonly suburban neighborhoods which amplify fears of something terrifying happening nearby, or isolated locations that manipulate fears of solitude. Horror movies also use icons like weapons to distinguish villains, religious symbols to represent struggles of good vs evil, and archetypal characters like families and corrupted children to explore themes of vulnerability and lost innocence.
Codes and conventions
This document discusses various elements and conventions of horror films. It notes that horror films are often set in isolated locations like forests or abandoned buildings to make protagonists vulnerable. Typical music uses suspenseful tones and isolated instruments. Common sounds include wind and screams. Antagonists are usually supernatural entities while protagonists are often families or friend groups of teenagers. Gloomy or stormy weather sets an unnerving atmosphere for horror scenes.
Focus group presentation
This document summarizes the results of a focus group discussion about horror films. The focus group presented their findings on topics like favorite horror films and sounds, preferred viewing locations, most frightening locations in films, effective film trailers and posters, magazine cover designs, and the use of actors and text on covers. They thanked participants for their time.
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According to a survey of 40 college students:
1) Supernatural horrors were the most popular horror film subgenre.
2) Respondents preferred films where all characters are killed with no survivors.
3) Young adults and teenagers were the most popular age ranges for characters in horror films.
Generic conventions of horror
Mise-en-scene in horror films establishes isolation and ominous settings through techniques like pathetic fallacy, sinister props, and dark colors like red and black. Lighting is used to create mood, cast shadows, and suggest split personalities. Costumes distinguish stereotypical character types like the "blonde" and "athlete". Sound design with exaggerated diegetic sound and loud non-diegetic music builds tension and makes audiences feel scared. Common props symbolizing religion or the devil include bibles, crucifixes, and candles. Horror films typically feature stock character archetypes like "the blonde [who] usually dies first".
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History of thriller
The document discusses the history and elements of thriller films. It provides examples of early thrillers from the 1920s-1960s directed by Alfred Hitchcock and others, as well as more modern examples. Common elements of thrillers are described as excitement, suspense, adrenaline, tension, dark lighting, puzzles, enigmas, and tense music. Specific characters often found in thrillers are also detailed. The relationship between thrillers and horror films is explored, noting where they overlap and differ.
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Representations half term
This document summarizes the common character types found in horror films according to Vladimir Propp's theories. It outlines 5 main character types that usually appear: 1) The villain who struggles against the hero, 2) The donor who prepares the hero, 3) The magical helper who helps the hero, 4) The princess/father who gives the hero a task, and 5) The hero or victim. However, in horror films the villain typically wins instead of the hero. The hero is often killed or possessed by the end to shock the audience. Examples of different villain and hero representations are provided.
Conventions of Psychological horror.
Psychological horror films focus on audiences' deepest fears and disturbing their sense of reality. They typically take place in ordinary, everyday settings like houses, woods, schools and hospitals to seem realistic and allow audiences to imagine themselves in the story. The killers often appear normal initially but are surprisingly revealed to be dangerous, messing with viewers' minds. While weapons may be present, psychological horror emphasizes the twisted antagonist's manipulation of victims' minds through fear and mind games over physical violence. Contrapuntal sounds are also used to intentionally disorient audiences.
Codes and conventions of horror movies
Codes and conventions are important elements for a film to be recognized as belonging to the horror genre. Some common conventions include isolated locations, gloomy weather, and camera techniques like point-of-view shots and close-ups of victims' expressions. Editing techniques like slow motion and black and white can also create suspense. Women are often portrayed as vulnerable victims in need of saving, and the films play on common fears of death, injury, and being stalked by a threatening villain.
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The document discusses the history and evolution of horror films over time. It provides descriptions of influential early horror films from the 1920s-1980s like Nosferatu, Frankenstein, Psycho and Night of the Living Dead. It notes how horror films have changed from focusing on ghosts and monsters to incorporating themes like serial killers, zombies and supernatural possessions. More recent horror films from the 2000s emphasize realistic scenes and suspense to scare audiences by suggesting events could actually occur.
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Research into psychological horror
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The document discusses different types of research techniques, including quantitative and qualitative research as well as primary and secondary research. It also discusses different types of audiences for films, including mainstream, alternative, and niche audiences. Finally, it discusses various methods for profiling audiences, such as by gender, age, ethnicity, demographics, and psychographics.
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Research: Horror Genre
This document discusses the horror genre and the 1978 film Halloween. It defines horror films as depicting viewers' worst fears and the unknown. Halloween follows Michael Myers who returns to his hometown to stalk and kill people on Halloween. The film helped establish conventions for the genre such as using first-person perspectives and female heroes. It also examines posters for the film and discusses target audiences for horror, which appeals to a wide range including women who enjoy strong female characters.
Generic conventions of horror
The opening scene of The Woman in Black establishes an eerie atmosphere through its use of generic horror conventions. We see three young girls playing with dolls accompanied by unsettling music, foreshadowing danger. Their strange behavior and a mysterious figure in black hook the audience to learn more. Iconography like screaming and the veil associated with death effectively set the horror tone for the film. The target audience is likely those 25 and under who enjoy horror genres, and the film attracted viewers through its young actors like Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter.
Conventionsin horror
There are conventions that horror directors often follow that have resulted in criticisms of predictability. Settings are commonly suburban neighborhoods which amplify fears of something terrifying happening nearby, or isolated locations that manipulate fears of solitude. Horror movies also use icons like weapons to distinguish villains, religious symbols to represent struggles of good vs evil, and archetypal characters like families and corrupted children to explore themes of vulnerability and lost innocence.
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This document discusses various elements and conventions of horror films. It notes that horror films are often set in isolated locations like forests or abandoned buildings to make protagonists vulnerable. Typical music uses suspenseful tones and isolated instruments. Common sounds include wind and screams. Antagonists are usually supernatural entities while protagonists are often families or friend groups of teenagers. Gloomy or stormy weather sets an unnerving atmosphere for horror scenes.
Focus group presentation
This document summarizes the results of a focus group discussion about horror films. The focus group presented their findings on topics like favorite horror films and sounds, preferred viewing locations, most frightening locations in films, effective film trailers and posters, magazine cover designs, and the use of actors and text on covers. They thanked participants for their time.
Primary audience research – horror survey
According to a survey of 40 college students:
1) Supernatural horrors were the most popular horror film subgenre.
2) Respondents preferred films where all characters are killed with no survivors.
3) Young adults and teenagers were the most popular age ranges for characters in horror films.
Generic conventions of horror
Mise-en-scene in horror films establishes isolation and ominous settings through techniques like pathetic fallacy, sinister props, and dark colors like red and black. Lighting is used to create mood, cast shadows, and suggest split personalities. Costumes distinguish stereotypical character types like the "blonde" and "athlete". Sound design with exaggerated diegetic sound and loud non-diegetic music builds tension and makes audiences feel scared. Common props symbolizing religion or the devil include bibles, crucifixes, and candles. Horror films typically feature stock character archetypes like "the blonde [who] usually dies first".
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The document discusses the thriller genre and various subgenres. It provides an overview of common narrative styles in thrillers, including the protagonist facing a problem or danger. Case studies of films like Shutter Island and Silence of the Lambs are examined. Key characteristics of the thriller genre include suspense, plot twists, contrasting protagonist/antagonist characters. Subgenres discussed include action, crime, and psychological thrillers.
Pitch presentation
The group will create a slasher film trailer featuring gruesome deaths, a masked killer, and teens in peril. They were inspired by films like Friday the 13th set in remote wooded areas with lakes. The narrative involves a group of teens exploring an abandoned location only to be killed one by one by an unknown killer. Costumes will identify character types like revealing clothes for the promiscuous girl doomed to die brutally, while light colors symbolize innocence for the "final girl" survivor.
History of thriller
The document discusses the history and elements of thriller films. It provides examples of early thrillers from the 1920s-1960s directed by Alfred Hitchcock and others, as well as more modern examples. Common elements of thrillers are described as excitement, suspense, adrenaline, tension, dark lighting, puzzles, enigmas, and tense music. Specific characters often found in thrillers are also detailed. The relationship between thrillers and horror films is explored, noting where they overlap and differ.
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This document summarizes the common character types found in horror films according to Vladimir Propp's theories. It outlines 5 main character types that usually appear: 1) The villain who struggles against the hero, 2) The donor who prepares the hero, 3) The magical helper who helps the hero, 4) The princess/father who gives the hero a task, and 5) The hero or victim. However, in horror films the villain typically wins instead of the hero. The hero is often killed or possessed by the end to shock the audience. Examples of different villain and hero representations are provided.
Conventions of Psychological horror.
Psychological horror films focus on audiences' deepest fears and disturbing their sense of reality. They typically take place in ordinary, everyday settings like houses, woods, schools and hospitals to seem realistic and allow audiences to imagine themselves in the story. The killers often appear normal initially but are surprisingly revealed to be dangerous, messing with viewers' minds. While weapons may be present, psychological horror emphasizes the twisted antagonist's manipulation of victims' minds through fear and mind games over physical violence. Contrapuntal sounds are also used to intentionally disorient audiences.
Codes and conventions of horror movies
Codes and conventions are important elements for a film to be recognized as belonging to the horror genre. Some common conventions include isolated locations, gloomy weather, and camera techniques like point-of-view shots and close-ups of victims' expressions. Editing techniques like slow motion and black and white can also create suspense. Women are often portrayed as vulnerable victims in need of saving, and the films play on common fears of death, injury, and being stalked by a threatening villain.
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The document discusses the history and evolution of horror films over time. It provides descriptions of influential early horror films from the 1920s-1980s like Nosferatu, Frankenstein, Psycho and Night of the Living Dead. It notes how horror films have changed from focusing on ghosts and monsters to incorporating themes like serial killers, zombies and supernatural possessions. More recent horror films from the 2000s emphasize realistic scenes and suspense to scare audiences by suggesting events could actually occur.
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This document discusses the key elements that define a horror film. It notes that horror films are designed to frighten audiences through invoking their deepest fears and showing terrifying endings. Successful horror films utilize similar techniques like death, darkness, strange places and intense music to elicit fear. It provides the example of the film Annabelle, which grossed over $256 million worldwide by starting as an innocent doll but transforming into a terrifying creature from hell.
Research into psychological horror
A psychological horror film establishes seemingly normal settings and characters to create an unsettling atmosphere. Characters are often left undefined at first to add mystery. The main character is usually a woman to emphasize vulnerability. Common character types include young adults, the mentally or emotionally unstable, goths, and detectives. Music, sounds of pain and suffering, and a slow, well-paced plot enhance tension and suspense. Low lighting, fast editing during dramatic scenes, and handheld camera shots further unsettle the audience. Common iconography includes haunted houses, symbols of death, masks, screaming victims, and phallic weapons.
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- 3. Poster Things that portray the genre Horror: • The use of red connotates to blood and danger. • The newspapers in the background say "missing", which is a typical theme in a horror film. • The use of only three colours removes factors of realism. • It is set in forest, which is a typical setting for a horror film. • The symbol in the foreground symbolises crucifixion, which suggests danger or execution.