A2 Media

Using your notes from class on sub-genre and Horror conventions, write a summary of HOW the film make interesting use of the conventions of Horror and Sub-genres you have studied In “The cabin in the woods” they used more than one sub- genre to make the horror film. One of the main sub-genres was zombie, the initial monsters were the zombies however this film combined the zombie sub-genre and the splatter sub-genre. The way the zombies were killing of the five main characters was suing the sub-genre splatter. The dumb blonde’s death was quite graphic with the zombie throwing the head of the girl (Jules) to the main protagonist Dana, who is the “virgin”. Two sub-genres become involved in this film which are supernatural and J-horror, the men in charge are creating chaos all around the world to making the people who are being attacked a sacrifice to the “gods”.  So there is a clip which shows what other countries are doing and one of them is Japan, it shows an aspects of the sub

Production team name: Movie title: Don’t, Don’t go Format: Movie Genre: Horror Sub-genre: Supernatural Tense: Indented audience: teenagers and young adults Synopsis: The protagonist is a young girl who starts to question why so many deaths are happening in her neighbourhood and why no one does anything. The myth of a girl who lost her family because of an incident, and because of this she is immortal and haunts or kills anyone who enters her family house. Characters Protagonist: teenage girl who’s curious for the many deaths that happen in her neighbourhood which no one talks about. She’s really curious and wanders why people are afraid to talk about it. She out of the three of the girls is the most serious, the leader of the group. Protagonist friend number 1: teenage girl blonde haired who is friends with the protagonist, easily scared. She gets persuaded easily to join the investigation. Protagonist friends number 2: teenage girl dar

One of the many icons in Horror that is used regularly is Religious Symbols, Religion plays a big part in the genre of Horror because with it comes the themes of Good vs Evil, Man fighting demons etc. also the uncertainty of believing it or not. The symbol of death is present in nearly all Horror films. Objects that represent death and that are used in Horror films are coffins, graveyards, gravestones, skeletons and sometimes crows symbolise death especially the afterlife. Light is one of the icons that can be seen in a more positive view symbolising hope which could be because the character might be escaping or they may be defeating the evil antagonist. The two main colours that are used in Horror films are red and black. Red symbolising blood and danger and black symbolising death. In horror films normally the antagonist wears black which symbolises that they as that character represent death and they are normally the ones which cause death upon other characters.  In

10 conventions of Horror Films Mise-en-scene Isolated place Haunted House   Asylum Woods/Forest Graveyards Cabins Characters ·           Dumb blonde ·          Teenagers( they are vulnerable and they are the target audience for this genre) ·          Villain ·          Jock character who wants to help and be the hero ·          There someone that’s crazy(possessed) Prop Light source( candle, match, torch that suddenly runs out or doesn’t turn on) Crucifix Chainsaw Knife etc. Sound ·          Phone ringing ·          Intense/ creepy non diegetic when a serious or dangerous scene is about to happen ·          Heavy breathing Plot People go into a new house and its haunted People find a mysterious object(enigma) and then it turn out bad People go to a haunted place to find out what happened or just for fun A part of the house that is locked of but they end up going anyway Ghost hunting Pathetic fallacy( raining, thunder and lig