After having looked at multiple opening scenes, my partner and I decided to focus on the HORROR genre, as we most enjoyed the opening scenes from this genre whilst we were analysing them. I did some research into the typical conventions of horror themed films, which I may want to include within my own.
Firstly, the iconography of horror films generally includes:
- Visual style: often dark colours like red and black (links to evil, blood and danger etc).
-Lighting is expressive and non-naturalistic. Low key-lighting lighting can help create dark shadows and unfamiliar shapes in the blackness.
Firstly, the iconography of horror films generally includes:
- Visual style: often dark colours like red and black (links to evil, blood and danger etc).
-Lighting is expressive and non-naturalistic. Low key-lighting lighting can help create dark shadows and unfamiliar shapes in the blackness.
- Lighting can be motivated in the world of the film (line bonfires, fireplaces and torches).
Props can help us to further identify the horror genre.
Props can help us to further identify the horror genre.
- Specific props can be identified with a certain villain or character (Chainsaws, Machetes, Knife, Costumes, Fire alarms etc).
-Common objects include: weapons, masks, icons of the supernatural, religious icons etc.
- The iconography of the monsters help to connote extreme fear, disgust and terror: Werewolves, Vampires, Mummies, Frankenstein and many others.
Settings for horror films include:
- Small communities or isolated places.
-Common objects include: weapons, masks, icons of the supernatural, religious icons etc.
- The iconography of the monsters help to connote extreme fear, disgust and terror: Werewolves, Vampires, Mummies, Frankenstein and many others.
Settings for horror films include:
- Small communities or isolated places.
- Urban environments, dark streets and narrow alleyways.
- Large cities or run down ghost towns.
- Anything that connotes isolation or being alone.
- Often sometimes places with "dark" history, like abandoned houses, hotels and insane asylums.
- Locations for any good horror genre film could be: Lakes, Roads, Highways, Countryside, Barns, Farms, Dark Woods, Woodlands, Houses, Cabins, Haunted Houses and many other dark locations.
Technical codes for horror films include:
- Camera work is very expressive and not natural.
- Often sometimes places with "dark" history, like abandoned houses, hotels and insane asylums.
- Locations for any good horror genre film could be: Lakes, Roads, Highways, Countryside, Barns, Farms, Dark Woods, Woodlands, Houses, Cabins, Haunted Houses and many other dark locations.
Technical codes for horror films include:
- Camera work is very expressive and not natural.
- High and low angles can connote fear and nightmares.
- POV shots are important because they allow the audience to see the world from the monster's eye.
- POV shots are important because they allow the audience to see the world from the monster's eye.
- This happens roughly at the end or the in the middle of typical horror films (Evil Dead has a very long POV shot when it was chasing Ash the hero through his house).
- Handheld shots make it difficult for the audience to make out what is happening.
- Handheld shots make it difficult for the audience to make out what is happening.
- "Clover field" is one prime example of this, since the entire movie is shot with a handheld camera to promote the feeling of terror and the unknown.
- Sometimes framework uses the depth of field, as it makes it harder to see the monster creeping up by behind the protagonist.
- Disturbing sounds are very important in a horror movie. Ambient digits sounds like footsteps and non-diegetic sounds (like a heartbeat).
Typical narrative structures in horror films include:
- Classic narrative structure largely made applicable to the Horror genre but it can either be left for closure or maybe perhaps leave room for sequel and therefore enable a franchise (like Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street).
- There's always a hero, a protagonist, a man or a 'final girl' of the film, keeping with the normal conventions of the genre. Usually the hero must embark on a mission or quest to kill or solve problems.
Character types within horror films include:
- The main protagonist, often the 'victim/hero' of the movie.
- The villain, often a monster, mutated freak, alien or serial killer.
- The stupid/immoral teenagers that always get killed.
- Creepy children.
- Police officers that can either be good or bad.
- And many more: Ghosts, Zombies, Demons, Psychopath, Stalker, Weirdo, Werewolf etc.
Some themes include:
- Good vs Evil
- Depression
- Religion
- Childhood issues
- Revenge
- Supernatural
- Beyond death etc.......
- Disturbing sounds are very important in a horror movie. Ambient digits sounds like footsteps and non-diegetic sounds (like a heartbeat).
Typical narrative structures in horror films include:
- Classic narrative structure largely made applicable to the Horror genre but it can either be left for closure or maybe perhaps leave room for sequel and therefore enable a franchise (like Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street).
- There's always a hero, a protagonist, a man or a 'final girl' of the film, keeping with the normal conventions of the genre. Usually the hero must embark on a mission or quest to kill or solve problems.
Character types within horror films include:
- The main protagonist, often the 'victim/hero' of the movie.
- The villain, often a monster, mutated freak, alien or serial killer.
- The stupid/immoral teenagers that always get killed.
- Creepy children.
- Police officers that can either be good or bad.
- And many more: Ghosts, Zombies, Demons, Psychopath, Stalker, Weirdo, Werewolf etc.
Some themes include:
- Good vs Evil
- Depression
- Religion
- Childhood issues
- Revenge
- Supernatural
- Beyond death etc.......
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