This document discusses conventions and inspirations for horror trailers and films. It notes that while ghosts and demons were traditionally the source of horror, the genre is expanding to include other supernatural elements like mummies. Locations are also broadening from just abandoned sites to include realistic settings like planes that are harder to escape. The document advocates using a handheld camera perspective to make audiences feel like they are part of the film, but combining it with traditional filming to avoid being overused. Overall, it promotes drawing on true stories and relatable locations to create more realistic and thus scarier horror content.

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2. • Convention: Something which is not human is normally causes the horror.
• Stereotypically, it is usually ghosts and demons such as in the A2 trailer, ‘Paralysis’.
• However, this is slowly changing.
• For example, in the trailer ‘The Pyramids’, its mummies.

3. • Inspiration: Horror storylines are now becoming more based on true stories which is
more scary.
• What I find influential is that the horror genre is starting to in-cooperating history such
as in the new film, ‘As Above, So Below’ which involves the catacombs under Paris
because it highlights how the past can effect the present/future.

4. • Convention: Usually the film is filmed from the perspective of another character via a
hand held camera.
• This is done in a way so we can feel either part of the film – which makes it more scary
– or so that the audience as a clearer insight of the film and a better understanding of
the characters.
• This is a convention which both big industries and A2 media students use.

5. • Inspiration: I find this method of filming influential as I believe it enhances the horror of
the film as an audience member feels as if they are apart of it.
• However, I feel that this method of filming has becoming overused so I feel that my
trailer should incorporate the hand held camera idea alongside the normal style of filming.
• For example, the 2013 film ‘Evidence’ explores this.

6. • Convention: A haunted location
• Stereotypically, the location where the film is filmed is usually abandoned and haunted by
something.
• For example in the movie ‘Evil Dead’.
• However, this stereotype is now becoming more challenged as more films are adding realism to
their films.
• For example, ‘7500’ explores the idea of a haunted plane which is more terrifying because there is
the element of no escape.

7. • Inspiration: I find the use of realistic locations in which an audience can relate to
influential as it increases the fear in the horror genre.
• Other films which use this which I take influence from are ‘Oujia’ and ‘Annabelle’.