Conventions of horror genre
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Sara Nejad
CONVENTIONS OF THE HORROR GENRE
CONVENTIONAL LOCATIONS IN THE HORROR GENRE
The Amityville The conjuring Monster house
• Mostly the cameras are zoomed out to shows the battle and maybe few short zoomed In ,
• This includes a lot of spinning from the camera around the subject or person who is in shot for that moment
CAMERA FRAMING/MOVEMENT
The conjuring(2013) Insidious (2011)
CONVENTIONAL PROPS
• As you can see over 27 years not much has changed directors still use the same objects and props to threaten the villain or protagonist .
Saw 4 2007 Midnight Madness 1980
• There's always one sharp cut and then after that about 5 to 10 minutes contention that afterwards it goes back to the main story and when something is happening there would be a lot of mix shots right after each other.
THE STYLE OF EDITING
The haunting (1963)
CONVENTIONAL COSTUME/HAIR/MAKE-UP• As you can see can see below they use similar costumes hair and make-up.
The evil dead 2012The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920s
The exorcist 1973
• Normally there's no emotional music and they mostly use secretive music
• In the last past 30years ago the music in horror movies makes the viewer's hearts beat fast and give them the excitement out of stress and fear
SOUNDS
Tourist Trap(2005)
Sinister(2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0saoMv1ecpI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zf5eO3dLpA
BODY LANGUAGE/FACIAL GESTURES
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbLXQCT2mzY
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7VpXYUBrCU
Sinister The Counjuring
• There's always one common seen that there's fight between good and bad power over the innocent host. In this battle the good power is always over come the bad ones
THEMES
Halloween6(2006)Return to horror high(1987)
LIGHTING
• Low-key lighting used to create shadow
Faust 1922
• In horror movies there's always three main character there's always one host, an evil and a hero rescuer.
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• the hero rescuer
CHARACTER TYPE
The Exorcist 1973
The host
The evil
The hero rescuers
The evil
The host
The Conjuring(2013)
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