Horror films seek to create fear in audiences by playing on primal fears using macabre and supernatural themes. Common conventions include isolated settings like back alleys or asylums, supernatural beings that create abnormality, and props like knives that are accessible threats. Gruesome deaths and blood are often shown. Horror targets young adult audiences aged 16 to 25 who enjoy high gore levels in films and games, and often objectifies attractive women who are killed, theorized to appeal to male viewers' sexual urges. Over time, horror has diversified into subgenres like fake documentaries, mass infestations, building terror, creatures, gore, and serial killers to attract different audiences.
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+the context of South Africa, including details on apartheid,
+key facts and information on the making of the film,
+systems for keeping notes during watching with templates using the Cornell notes system,
+dozens of activities on narrative in film studies,
+information and activities on narrative theorists such as Vladimir Propp, Tzetvan Todorov and Claude Levi-Strauss,
+work on narrative techniques such as Chekov's Gun, cause and effect and many more,
in-depth details on key scenes,
+dozens of screenshots from the film as well as images from other relevant areas that have influenced the film,
+dozens of activities for students including hundreds of questions,
+guidance on how to analyse scenes from the film using hexagaonal learning, summary sheets to help with revision key scene analysis which includes links to the specific scenes or extracts, hosted permanently on YouTube, so you don’t even need a copy of the film to complete some of the tasks-again, perfect for students to complete!
+many of the tasks have also been designed to be peer or self-assessed and there is a wide variety of solo work, paired work or group work catered for, with each activity described in detail at the beginning of each task.
This guide has been written so that it can be used in a variety of ways; print and use as a ready-to-go scheme of work in a booklet. Maybe give to students as a detailed homework that can be completed alongside your own classroom work. It also works great for revision, either with individual task printed or again, as a whole booklet. Try printing individual pages as starters or plenaries, or even using the tasks as engaging resources for lessons built around key ideas of your own.
If you like the look of this document, you can purchase it from here:
https://sellfy.com/p/4ALc/
Please note: the District 9 study guides are slightly more expensive due to the sheer size and detail of them.
This is a comprehensive scheme of work with 100 pages of detailed information and activities, designed to support in teaching District 9i for WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Film Studies. This version comes with 2 PDF versions as well as editable versions in Word and Pages format.
Written by an experienced examiner and consultant, this booklet on District 9, directed by Neil Blomkamp in 2009, provides a huge range of activities. Designed to be a digital textbook as well as study and revision guide, this resource features dozens of activities and hundreds of questions as well as information to support students and teachers appreciation of District 9 in relation to Component 2 of Eduqas GCSE Film Studies.
Some of the work includes:
+the context of South Africa, including details on apartheid,
+key facts and information on the making of the film,
+systems for keeping notes during watching with templates using the Cornell notes system,
+dozens of activities on narrative in film studies,
+information and activities on narrative theorists such as Vladimir Propp, Tzetvan Todorov and Claude Levi-Strauss,
+work on narrative techniques such as Chekov's Gun, cause and effect and many more,
in-depth details on key scenes,
+dozens of screenshots from the film as well as images from other relevant areas that have influenced the film,
+dozens of activities for students including hundreds of questions,
+guidance on how to analyse scenes from the film using hexagaonal learning, summary sheets to help with revision key scene analysis which includes links to the specific scenes or extracts, hosted permanently on YouTube, so you don’t even need a copy of the film to complete some of the tasks-again, perfect for students to complete!
+many of the tasks have also been designed to be peer or self-assessed and there is a wide variety of solo work, paired work or group work catered for, with each activity described in detail at the beginning of each task.
This guide has been written so that it can be used in a variety of ways; print and use as a ready-to-go scheme of work in a booklet. Maybe give to students as a detailed homework that can be completed alongside your own classroom work. It also works great for revision, either with individual task printed or again, as a whole booklet. Try printing individual pages as starters or plenaries, or even using the tasks as engaging resources for lessons built around key ideas of your own.
2. Horror
• The genre horror seeks to create fear from the
audience by playing on its primal fears. Scenes
often startle and shock audience with the use
of macabre and supernatural themes. These
themes generally overlap with the fantasy,
supernatural and thriller genres.
3. Conventions of Horror
• The settings of horror films are generally in
isolated such as urban areas like back alleys, small
villages, rundown asylums
• Supernatural beings are used in horrors film to
create a sense of abnormality.
• Props such as knifes are used a lot in horror films
creating fear through it being an everyday object
and it being easily accessible to anyone.
• Lot of gruesome deaths and blood are used in
horror films, quite macabre
4. Target audience
• Horror films in my opinion are aimed at young
adults between the ages of 16 to 25.
• The high amount of blood and gore used in
horror movie relates to young adults as they are a
generation who play computer games that are
filled with very macabre conventions.
• The films are mainly targeted on male audiences
as they use very attractive women which are then
killed. A theory suggests that man get a sexual
urge from seeing females suffer.
5. How has Horror developed over time
• Since it began in the 1920s, the genre of horror has changed
dramatically.
• There is not just one type of horror it has been split in to different
sections:
• The fake documentary
• The mass infestation
• The unknown and building of terror
• Creatures from beyond
• Gore
• Serial killer
• All these different types of horror offer different types of
audiences, different types of horror making horror the most
developed genre out of all genres.
