1) Genre refers to any category of literature, art, or other cultural works based on stylistic criteria. Film genres help audiences choose films and include categories like horror, thriller, science fiction, and fantasy. 2) Horror films aim to elicit fear, disgust, and horror through disturbing and supernatural scenes. They often overlap with fantasy and science fiction genres. 3) Common conventions in horror films include masked killers, blood, death, ghosts, demons, and haunted houses. Visual styles like shadows, low lighting, and musical cues are used to build suspense and atmosphere.

1. VANESSA JUSTINO DELIA DAN Genre Partner Project

2. What is Genre ? Film genre helps the cinematic industry as a whole by helping the audience choose which film they want to see Why … ? is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria

3. Horror Horror films are unsettling movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers it uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. suspense, excitement, tension, terror. Thriller Science fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least nonsupernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities. Fantasy It uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting

4. First horror Movie ‘Le Manoir du Diable’ (French: The House of the Devil) The History of Horror … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw8bzC33CGY&NR=1 <- This Is the First Horror Movie Released As horror movies budgets has increase in the 1960’s The Exorcist (1973) broke all records for a horror film and is, still today said by audience that is to be one of the most feared movies to watch Country: France Run Time: 2 minutes Colour: Black and White Release Date: 24 December, 1986

5. Themes or elements often prevalent in typical horror films include: Ghosts Torture Gore Werewolves Satanism demons vicious animals vampires Haunted houses Zombies masked serial killers Blood Death Codes and Conventions … Visual Style Shadows Low key lighting

6. Characters Usually good against evil The main character is innocent, smart and attractive (mainly girl) Dumb character always fall into a trap Angles / Shots Music High stringed music Horns The music changes the atmosphere, so if you had a suspense scene, you would have a music more agitated Makes the scene more realistic, and focus on the main character Zoom in Track Close up shots Long shot Mid shot Generally it is a everyday setting This gives the effect that it could happen to the viewer adding to the fear promoted by the movie Settings

7. Horror films : are unsettling movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres. Horrors also frequently overlap with the thriller genre

8. H20 (Halloween 20 years later) Director: Steve Miner On Halloween Michael Myers murdered his sister, Judith. After time he broke out to kill his other sister, Laurie Strode. He killed all of her friends, but she escaped. A few years later, she faked her death so he couldn't find her. Michael has returned and found all the papers he needs to find her. He tracks her down to a private school where she has gone under a new name with her son, John. And now, Laurie must do what she should have done a long time ago and finally decided to hunt down the evil one last time. Release Date:23 October 1998 Production Company: Dimension Films, Nightfall Productions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMpeZ1BXEO4

9. Conventions Mask to hind identity Blood Tragedy…. Vulnerable Female Revenge Angles/Shots Mid shot Body reaction (movement) Close up shot to show emotion e.g.: fear, High Shot to show power

10. Friday the 13th Director: Sean S. Cunningham Camp counsellors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to re-open a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning. The man hunts all the people that goes in that camp. Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Georgetown Productions Inc., Sean S. Cunningham Films Release Date:9 May 1980 (USA) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBRwYipQMR0&feature=related

11. Conventions Dead female Killer objects Angles/Shots Mask and Blood Close up shot Two shot