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The document discusses common elements of the horror genre including iconography, characters, ideological themes, settings, and narrative structure. Iconography in horror includes symbols like revenge, hauntings, serial killers, demons, and monsters. Common characters are protagonists, villains like monsters or serial killers, idiots teenagers who get killed, and creepy children. Ideological themes involve the supernatural, good vs evil, religion, and psychological issues. Typical settings are isolated areas, abandoned buildings, forests, and graveyards. Narrative structures in horror films usually involve a protagonist on a mission to kill or solve problems, with slasher films following a formula where the villain returns to prey on teenagers after some childhood trauma.
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2) The Jock is arrogant, vain, and popular but not very bright. They are often the first non-main characters killed.
3) The Popular Girl is beautiful and well-liked but can also be mean. She is typically dating the Jock.
4) Pandora or the "Dark Horse" seems innocent but is revealed to be the killer in a plot twist.
5) The Final Girl is the main character who outsmarts the killer and survives to the end
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The document discusses narrative conventions and structures that are common in horror genres. It explains that horror narratives typically follow a three-act structure of an onset phase where a disorder is introduced, a discovery phase where characters learn of the disorder, and a disruption phase where characters work to restore order by defeating the source of the disorder. The document also summarizes some key narrative theories that are relevant for analyzing horror films, such as those proposed by Todorov, Propp, Barthes, and Levi-Strauss.
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This document outlines common conventions of horror settings, props, and themes. Isolated or abandoned places like insane asylums, ghost towns, and forests are often used as settings. Props like weapons, masks, and the colors red and black are employed to convey fear, violence, and evil. Popular horror themes include good vs evil, childhood issues, revenge, the supernatural, death, torture, insanity, and zombie apocalypses.
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Horror films typically use certain settings, camera techniques, iconography, narrative structures, character types, and themes to elicit fear in audiences. Common settings include isolated locations like forests, abandoned buildings, and marshes. Technical elements aim to distort vision and heighten tension, such as high and low camera angles, handheld shots, and ambient lighting. Iconography features recognizable props and villains like masks, knives, and vampires associated with danger. Narratives usually involve heroes battling villains through several climactic scenes, and characters include victims, monsters, and protagonists overcoming threats. Recurring themes depict universal human struggles of good versus evil, religion, and life's biggest questions.
Conventions of a horror film mr darby.pptx
The key conventions in horror films include setting, technical elements, iconography, narrative, characters, themes, and music. Settings often involve isolated or creepy locations like forests, abandoned buildings, or graveyards. Technical elements like camera angles, lighting, and editing are used to build suspense and induce fear in viewers. Iconography may include symbols of evil, supernatural elements, or the villain's signature weapons. Narratives usually involve heroes embarking on a quest to defeat a threat, like a killer or monster, often with themes of good vs. evil, the supernatural, or madness. Characters include victims, villains, "stupid" teenagers, and police officers investigating threats. Music and sound effects also contribute
Conventions of a horror film mr darby.pptx
The key conventions in horror films include setting, technical elements, iconography, narrative, characters, themes, and music. Settings often involve isolated or creepy locations like forests, abandoned buildings, or graveyards. Technical elements like camera angles, lighting, and editing are used to build suspense and fear. Iconography may include dark colors, weapons, masks, and monsters. Narratives usually involve heroes embarking on a quest to defeat a threat like a killer, while teenagers are often victims. Characters include protagonists, villains, and police; themes commonly explore good vs evil, the supernatural, and madness. Music and sound effects enhance the scare factor.
Codes and conventions of a thriller
Thrillers rely on suspense, tension, and excitement to stimulate the audience's emotions. They keep viewers on the "edge of their seats" through the use of plot devices like cliffhangers. Thrillers commonly feature criminals, assassins, or law enforcement as protagonists overcoming obstacles posed by villains. Technical codes like lighting and editing techniques, as well as character and plot tropes involving heroines surviving threats, are used to create suspense and tension in the thriller genre.
Codes and conventions of a thriller
Thrillers rely on suspense, tension, and excitement. They stimulate audiences' emotions through fast pacing, gritty scenes, and anxiety. Thrillers keep audiences on the edge of their seats through plot twists, red herrings, and cliffhangers. Common thriller elements include criminals, assassins, terrorists as characters, as well as manipulation of sound, editing, lighting and location to increase fear and tension. Antagonists are typically truly frightening or disturbing forces that psychologically challenge protagonists.
Horror sub genres
This document discusses several subgenres of horror films including: comedy-horror, monster films, slasher films, zombie films, teen horror films, and supernatural horror films. It provides examples and defining characteristics of each subgenre. The document concludes that based on the description of having a psychotic demonic villain and dealing with a teenager's independence, the author's film idea would fit best into the supernatural horror genre.
Horror Genre Conventions
The document outlines several conventions of horror films, including common settings like isolated or run-down urban areas with dark histories, the use of unnatural camerawork like POV shots and handheld footage to add realism, and iconic visual styles employing dark colors, low lighting, and frightening props. It also discusses narrative structures featuring protagonists battling antagonists, familiar character archetypes, and themes involving good versus evil, religion, childhood trauma, science, and mental instability that exploit human fears.
Conventions of a horror
Horror films traditionally employ certain conventions including visual styles like red colors signifying danger, props like weapons identifying villains, and iconic monsters. Camera techniques like close-ups build suspense, while settings provide isolation. Narratives usually feature a hero battling an undefeatable villain, with stereotypical characters dying in order of weakness. However, modern horrors subvert conventions by omitting villains, having unpredictable outcomes, and featuring unconventional characters and themes.
Horror Genre Conventions
The document outlines several conventions of horror films including setting, cinematography, iconography, narrative, characters, and themes. Settings often involve isolated, dark urban areas like alleys or abandoned buildings. Cinematography uses unnatural camera movements, point-of-view shots, handheld shots, and close-ups to create tension. Common iconography includes dark colors, low lighting, weapons, and monsters. Narratives usually follow the classic structure with an antagonist and protagonist battling for survival. Characters include victims, villains, creepy children, and corrupted officers. Popular themes involve good vs evil, religion, childhood issues, science gone wrong, zombies, insanity, envy, and suicide.
How research impacted our ideas
Research was important throughout the project. Studying genre conventions helped the filmmakers understand what elements make a horror film scary. However, they also wanted to be unique. Research on settings, technical codes, iconography, narrative structures, characters, themes, and audience feedback impacted decisions for their horror trailer. It was set in a creepy marsh at night with scary camerawork, lighting, props, and a plot involving a female victim, evil teacher character, and unique female hero.
How research has impacted our ideas
Research was important throughout the project. Studying genre conventions helped the filmmakers understand what elements make horror films scary. However, they also wanted to be unique. Research on settings, technical codes, iconography, narrative structures, characters, themes, and audience feedback impacted decisions for their horror trailer. It was set in a creepy marsh at night with scary camerawork, lighting, props, and a plot involving a female victim, teacher villain, and hero who subverts typical character roles.
Horror presentation
Horror films typically use certain visual conventions like dark colors, low lighting to emphasize shadows, and props like knives and chainsaws associated with killers. Common monsters seen are vampires, werewolves, and mummies. Characters usually include monsters, killers, victims, and someone who figures things out. Settings are often dark, abandoned places at night to build suspense. Horror narratives focus on the conflicts and dilemmas faced by main characters dealing with evil forces or characters. Common themes include good vs. evil, religion, the supernatural, and issues beyond life and death.
Horror Genre Conventions
Horror films typically feature isolated settings like abandoned buildings, forests, or cities after dark. Cinematography aims to unsettle the audience with unnatural camera movements, point-of-view shots, and quick editing. Common iconography includes dark colors, low lighting, weapons, and monsters. Narratives usually involve an antagonist threatening the protagonist, with themes exploring good versus evil, religion, childhood trauma, science experiments gone wrong, zombies, insanity, envy, and suicide. Key characters are the victim protagonist, supernatural villain, creepy children, and trustworthy or corrupted police officers.
Thriller genre JoelR
Thriller genre conventions include protagonists facing problems against the clock such as escapes, missions or mysteries involving unseen threats. Subgenres include crime thrillers about serial killers or manhunts; film noir of the 1940s-50s with cynical heroes and flashbacks; psychological thrillers relying on the mind over physical threats; science fiction thrillers exploring "future gone bad" scenarios; and religious thrillers involving exorcisms or demonic possession. Settings include ordinary cities and exotic locales, while characters typically involve criminals, victims, and deranged individuals. Famous thriller films include Psycho, Fight Club, Seven, The Dark Knight, Leon: The Professional, The Birds, and Vertigo.
Representation of characters in spy thriller films
This document summarizes representations of characters in spy-thriller films according to various theories. It discusses stereotypes of gender, class, ethnicity and age in these films. It also examines the theories of the "final girl", cultivation theory, and Alfred Hitchcock's use of techniques like pull focus that established him as an auteur in the genre.
Representation of characters in spy thriller films
This document summarizes representations of characters in spy-thriller films according to various theories. It discusses stereotypes of gender, class, ethnicity and age that are commonly portrayed. It also outlines character archetypes from Propp's theory and the "Final Girl" theory. Techniques used by Alfred Hitchcock like the pull focus are examined, as are his auteur status and feminist film theories around the male gaze. In spy films specifically, women tend to be depicted as sexual objects while men are usually the protagonists.
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Repetoire of elements
- 2. Iconography Iconography is the physical tools of trade. In the horror genre, recurring symbols include: • Revenge • Hauntings • Serial killers • Death • Gore • Demons and exorcisms • Religious belief and icons • Weapons • Masks • Monsters such as mummies, vampires, werewolves/ghosts/villains • Lighting is often expressive and non-naturalistic. Dark shadows are created with low-key lighting
- 3. Characters • The protagonist – hero of the movie • The villain – often a monster or serial killer • Idiotic teenagers that always get killed • Creepy children • Police officers which can be good or bad • Other common characters include zombies, ghosts, psychopaths, werewolves, stalker and more. • Examples of famous horror film characters include: Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) Chucky (Child’s Play) Ghostface (Scream) Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
- 4. Ideological themes • Ideological themes are sets of values or belief and the ideology message can be delivered by the media text and its producers. Some ideologies can be conflicting. • In horror, ideology themes include: • Supernatural • Revenge • Suicide • Good vs. Evil • Religion • Childhood issues • Science experiments gone wrong • Nightmares • Psychological issues • Apocalypse • Beyond death
- 5. Settings • Isolated areas • Dark streets • Abandoned buildings • Alleyways • Run down ghost towns • Insane asylums • Lakes • Highways • Forests • Graveyards • Deep water • Hospitals
- 6. Narrative structure • A narrative structure provides a formula or template in film production • However the narrative is not simply just the plot or story, it is also the meaning for the audience • Film makers look to experiment with the structure of the story • In horror, there’s always a protagonist keeping up with the conventions of the genre. Usually the hero must embark on a mission to kill or solve problems. • Slasher films have noticeably formulaic narratives – After some event or childhood past that turns the killer insane, the villain returns to his home town and preys on teenagers. These teenagers are seen as immature and stupid and they are usually the ones who start the horror at the beginning or get killed quickly. There is also usually a survivor, most likely a female character. For example, Final girl becomes more masculine and phallic as she becomes more aggressive from hiding to fighting back the killer and hunting him down.