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The document discusses three horror movie trailers - A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Woman In Black, and Paranormal Activity 4. It analyzes how each trailer uses common horror conventions like supernatural beings, jumpy scenes, blood and gore, darkness, and manipulated nursery rhymes to build suspense. However, Paranormal Activity 4 partly breaks from conventions by using a handheld camera technique not typically seen in horror trailers.
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Horror films have existed since the silent movie era, becoming hugely popular in the late 1970s-1980s with movies like Nightmare on Elm Street. While what evokes fear has changed over time, horror movies still feature many common codes and conventions - including blood, death, villains, isolated settings, monsters, weapons, darkness, storms, and screams. They aim to elicit emotions of fear, disgust and horror through unsettling scenes and startling the viewer with techniques like dim lighting and disorienting Dutch tilt camera angles framed in the colors of black, white and red.
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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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The document discusses the history and conventions of horror films and trailers. It begins with a brief history of early surreal horror films and establishes common tropes. Examples of top-grossing horror films from various decades are provided. The document then outlines conventions commonly found in horror trailers, such as fast editing, dark lighting, rural settings, victimization of female characters, use of weapons and blood, and ending with a final scare.
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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.
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The document discusses various subgenres of horror films including action horror, body horror, teen horror, comedy horror, gothic horror, supernatural horror, psychological horror, slasher films, zombie films, and monster films. It provides examples of movies that fall into each subgenre and notes common elements found in horror films such as creatures, violence, blood, and creating a sense of fear in audiences. The document also mentions that Le Manoir Du Diable was considered the first horror film released in 1896.
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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.
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This document summarizes the conventions used in three horror movie trailers:
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Horror films seek to elicit negative emotional reactions from viewers by playing on primal fears. They often feature startling scenes involving the macabre, supernatural, or unknown to tap into viewers' nightmares and hidden fears. Common horror movie themes include something threatening people in or around an isolated house and a killer pursuing a single victim or group. Successful horror movies employ unsettling lighting, costumes, and props to build atmosphere and fright.
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The document discusses the themes and origins of supernatural horror films. It explains that supernatural horror uses tools and themes that defy the natural world, like demonic powers and witchcraft, to create an atmospheric story rather than focus on gruesome killings. The genre has its roots in religious traditions involving death, the afterlife, and evil manifestations from the devil, as portrayed in tales of witches, vampires, ghosts, and werewolves. One of the earliest examples is the 1896 French film "Le Manoir du Diable". The hybrid of supernatural and horror genres became popular because the themes work well together, though some films emphasize supernatural elements more than others.
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A thriller is a type of fiction that attempts to thrill the audience by putting characters in risky situations and maintaining a constant sense of unease. There are different types of thrillers including psychological, action, erotic, and supernatural. Generic conventions include resourceful heroes, cliffhangers, suspense, and exotic locations. Common themes are death, murder, stalking, and rape. Sleepy Hollow is given as an example thriller film that fulfills conventions through its antagonist, the Headless Horseman, and protagonist, Crane, generating shock through sudden actions and ambiguous details.
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A thriller is a type of fiction that attempts to thrill the audience by placing characters in risky situations that create a constant sense of unease. There are different types of thrillers including psychological, action, erotic, and supernatural. Generic conventions include resourceful heroes, cliffhangers, suspense, and exotic locations. Common themes are death, murder, stalking, and rape. Sleepy Hollow is given as an example thriller film that fulfills conventions through its antagonist, the Headless Horseman, and protagonist, Crane, generating shock through sudden actions and ambiguous details.
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A thriller is a type of fiction that attempts to thrill the audience by placing characters in risky situations that create a constant sense of unease. There are different types of thrillers including psychological, action, erotic, and supernatural. Generic conventions include resourceful heroes, cliffhangers, suspense, and exotic locations. Common themes are death, murder, stalking, and rape. Sleepy Hollow is given as an example thriller film that fulfills conventions through its antagonist, the Headless Horseman, and protagonist, Crane, generating shock through sudden actions and ambiguous details.
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The document provides a treatment for a horror film involving five teenage friends who become victims of a masked killer. The summary is as follows:
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This document analyzes the codes and conventions found in three horror film trailers: The Devil Inside, The Woman In Black, and Paranormal Activity 3. It discusses how the trailers relate to typical horror conventions such as isolated settings, eerie music, tension, fast editing, and supernatural elements. While The Devil Inside and The Woman In Black follow many conventions, Paranormal Activity 3 goes against some with its lack of fast pacing and use of handheld camera footage. The document examines how the trailers relate to different film theories regarding narrative, genre, and audience motivation.
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The document analyzes the trailer for the 2012 film The Woman in Black. It summarizes that the film is a horror/thriller based on a novel, telling the story of a solicitor who discovers the vengeful ghost of a woman haunting a remote town. The analysis then discusses several codes and conventions used in the trailer that are common to the horror/thriller genre, including unsettling camera shots, creepy props and costumes, themes of fearing the paranormal, slow editing to build suspense, and a dramatic soundtrack.
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The document analyzes the trailer for the 2012 film The Woman in Black. It summarizes that the film is a horror/thriller based on a novel, telling the story of a solicitor who discovers the vengeful ghost of a woman haunting a remote town. The analysis then discusses several codes and conventions used in the trailer that are common to the horror/thriller genre, including unsettling close-up shots, creepy props, a sinister soundtrack, and a slow editing pace meant to build fear and suspense in the audience.
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Horror films aim to elicit intense feelings of fear, shock, or disgust in viewers. The genre has evolved over time, with improvements in special effects and graphics making violence and gore appear increasingly realistic. Common elements of horror narratives include protagonists facing threats in isolated settings, strange events occurring, and antagonists ultimately harming the protagonists with iconic props like knives and guns. While the earliest horror films from the late 19th century featured brief supernatural scenes, the genre has since expanded to include psychological thriller and slasher elements focused on possessed characters and serial killers.
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The document provides information about different genres and subgenres of horror films. It discusses how horror films have changed over time from being purely gory and violent in the early 20th century to incorporating elements of comedy as well. Examples of classic horror films like Dracula, Frankenstein, and Friday the 13th are summarized along with more recent films like When a Stranger Calls and Case 39. Gothic, supernatural, science fiction, and comedy-horror are identified as common subgenres of horror. The document also examines how some of the example films fit conventions of the horror genre.
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The document provides information on various horror films and genres. It discusses early 20th century German horror films, how the genre has changed over time to include comedic elements, and provides plots and other details for notable horror films like Dracula, Frankenstein, When a Stranger Calls, Case 39, Scary Movie, and Friday the 13th. Subgenres of horror discussed include gothic, supernatural, comedy-horror, and science fiction. Still shots from some of the films are also included to illustrate common conventions of the genre.
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This document discusses the supernatural horror genre. Supernatural horror involves unnatural or supernatural events like individuals having superhuman abilities. Common themes include demonic powers, witchcraft, and the afterlife. Symbols like devil's traps and angel wards are often included. The genre has roots in folklore and religious traditions involving death, the afterlife, and evil embodied in the devil. Early films mixed supernatural and horror elements, like 1896's "Manoir du diable" and 2005's "Tamara". More recent successful films include "The Conjuring" franchise and "Annabelle".
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Slasher movies typically feature certain tropes:
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2) The monster wears a mask, making it scary because it could be anyone underneath and adding to the creepiness.
3) A group of friends who are without parental supervision are usually targeted when the monster attacks.
4) These movies often feature a benefactor, usually an older character like a police officer or doctor, who is seemingly committed the killings but is ultimately revealed to not be at the end.
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The storyboard is for a film titled "Wild Fear". It depicts a group of friends on a camping trip in the woods who encounter a mysterious creature stalking them in the night. Scenes show the friends setting up camp, hearing strange noises after dark, discovering a campsite torn apart, and finally catching a glimpse of a shadowy figure watching them from the trees.
Trailer Break Down
A behind the scenes documentary about filming a horror movie turns into a real horror scenario. The location scout goes into the woods to find a better filming location and is then heard screaming. When the director and actor go to investigate, they find the scout's camera covered in blood. The tone then shifts to resemble a typical horror film, with quick cuts showing characters being dragged, running, tripping, and hiding from an unseen threat. The last shot shows a bloodied girl screaming before the camera is destroyed, suggesting whatever they were filming has become frighteningly real.
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House of Horrors is New Line Cinema's licensing division that has created and distributed successful horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Conjuring. This document suggests that a new horror film could achieve similar success if supported by House of Horrors' distribution capabilities.
Masthead Typography
This document discusses typography used in mastheads. Mastheads are the titles or nameplates at the top of publications like newspapers and magazines. The typography choices in a masthead help set the tone for the publication and should reflect the intended audience and content within.
Target Audience
This document provides information about a target audience for a marketing campaign. The target audience is males and females aged 15 and older with low spending power who have an interest in horror films. They enjoy cinema, social networking sites, and socializing. Their demographics are males and females aged 15+ from socioeconomic classes A through E. Their psychographics include being of middle social class and having an interest in horror films.
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A film crew is making a horror movie but the director is unhappy with their location, so a location tester goes into the woods with a camera to find a new spot but is killed. As the crew and cast begin to die one by one, it is revealed that three hunters who live in the woods have been raised to believe killing people is a game.
Horror Trailer Analysis
The document provides descriptions of cinematography, editing, sound, and mise-en-scene techniques used in the trailers for three horror films: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Paranormal Activity 4, and The Woman in Black. For each film, the cinematography creates tension through close-ups and distorted shots. Editing uses fast pacing and motivated cuts to build suspense. Non-diegetic sound like children's voices and music add to the eerie atmosphere. Settings appear dark, chaotic, and haunted to emphasize the horror genre.
Horror Poster Analysis
The poster conveys the typical look of a horror film through its dark colors. It establishes expectations that the film will be similar to other successful horror films produced by the same producer, as mentioned in the tagline at the top. The title is prominently displayed in white text over the image of a mysterious child in the corner, drawing attention and hinting at supernatural themes. A selling line below the title adds intrigue and suggests the narrative will involve exploring what is meant by that line.
Representation investigation
Representation involves using signs and symbols to present a concept or social group to an audience. Theories of representation note that groups are often stereotyped in media through focusing on characteristics like age, gender, or ethnicity to make assumptions about them. When applied to horror films, representation theory examines how genres represent groups like women, often initially portraying them as vulnerable but sometimes subverting expectations by showing them as heroes by the end.
Media language investigation
The document analyzes the trailers for three horror films - A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Woman in Black, and Paranormal Activity 4 - focusing on their use of cinematography, editing, sound, and mise-en-scene to create tension and establish the horror genre. For each film, cinematography uses close-ups and shaky cameras. Editing includes fast cuts and fade-outs. Sound incorporates unsettling music, children's voices, and distorted effects. Mise-en-scene features dark lighting, fire, crosses, and realistic everyday settings to scare audiences.
Digital technology investigation
Digital technology refers to on-demand access to content anytime on digital devices and includes the internet, websites, video games, and optical discs. When creating a horror film, a variety of digital technologies are needed such as filming, producing, burning to disc, creating packaging, and uploading trailers to YouTube to make the content globally accessible. Digital technologies allow for manipulated, networkable, and interactive media.
Creativity investigation
Creativity is defined as using imagination or original ideas to create artistic works. A document discusses using creative features in horror movie trailers, such as soundtracks that add tension and suspense, as well as realistic supernatural costumes and gory scenes known in the horror genre to make the trailers more frightening.
Audience investigation
Audience investigation examines who media texts target and who consumes them. Audiences can be divided into demographics like age or gender, and psychographics like interests or values. Uses and gratifications theory from 1974 proposes that people choose media for entertainment, information, social relationships, and identity. The hypodermic syringe model from early theories suggested information is absorbed without thought, making consumers vulnerable to manipulation. While some feared horror films could influence crimes, studies argue they allow viewing crimes' feelings without committing them, satisfying consumers through a shared experience.
Post production investigation
Post-production involves all stages that occur after filming or recording has finished. For a horror trailer, key post-production stages include editing together filmed clips, adding non-diegetic music, and incorporating special effects through digital technology to develop the final trailer in a quicker and easier process compared to the past.
Narrative investigation
This document discusses different narrative structures and theorists. It begins by defining narrative as story structure and devices. It describes linear and circular structures, and how Aristotle and Freytag developed basic plot structures. It then discusses narrative theorists like Todorov and his model of equilibrium, disequilibrium, resolution, and restoration. Next it links Carroll's three phase model of onset, discovery, and disruption to the horror genre. Finally, it notes Todorov also argued narratives involve an initial situation, a disruptive problem, and a resolution reinstating the initial situation.
Research and planning investigation
Research and planning takes into account all aspects of developing, producing, and selling a product to consumers. This includes conducting surveys, analyzing sales reports, and carefully planning the cinematography, editing, sound, and visual elements when creating a specific medium, such as a horror film, to ensure it has a professional feel and interests the target audience. Proper research and planning is needed at each stage of making a horror film and in marketing the final product to be successful.
Genre Investigation
Genre is a way of categorizing media texts based on their content and style. Each genre has distinguishing characteristics that allow audiences to predict how the plot will develop. There are many genres, including horror, comedy, crime, romance, and sci-fi, which can be hybrids of different genres. Genres appeal to specific target audiences and contain certain conventions - for example, horror films typically involve tension, drama, and supernatural elements, often ending in multiple deaths. Genre theorists note that genres allow for repetition with variation over time and between cultures. The horror genre in particular explores fundamental human existential questions and goes beyond mere societal representations to deeper philosophical issues.
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This document provides layout guidelines for different page types including front covers, contents pages, and double page spreads. It addresses design considerations for page headers, body text, and visual elements on multi-page layouts. The guidelines aim to create a consistent style throughout a publication.
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- 2. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ contains typical conventions of a horror trailer as it contains a supernatural being along with jumpy moments as well as blood and gore. All of these conventions adds to the suspense of the horror trailer which is typical within the horror genre.
- 3. THE WOMAN IN BLACK ‘The Woman In Black’ also follows typical conventions of the horror genre with the use of a children's nursery rhyme which can be manipulated into something scary and horrifying. There is use of darkness and a supernatural being which adds to the horror trailer.
- 4. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 ‘Paranormal Activity 4’ partly follows conventions of the horror trailer such as darkness and a supernatural being. But also goes against conventions with a handheld camera which is not commonly used in horror trailers.