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NATALIA AS-MEDIA ENE_PRODUCTIONS
HORROR GENRE RESEARCH:
What is Horror genre about?:
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Horror films are the ones that seek to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. I chose the Horror genre because I think films that involucrate terror are more interesting and will attract a bigger audience.
Characteristics:
- Scary theme: it needs to be located in a scary theme so the audience feels they are watching a horror film and not any other genre.
- Frightening music: during the film is has to have special effects and suspense music to create tension.
- Suspense: it has to have an enigma and bring suspense nearly to the end so the audience stays entertain.
- Dark colours: the use of dark colours as using a night sense gives it a much more horror film.
- Creepy propps: it needs to have propps which make it scary and the audience are able to see to know what is happening.
Camera shots/angles:
- Hand held camera shot
- High angle/ Low angle
- Tilted angle
- Close up shot
- Birds eye
- Point of view shot
Horror films examples:
- Come play
- The invisible man
- IT
- Lights out
- Dead silence
FILMS OPENINGS ANALYSE:
LIGHTS OUT:
Lights out is a film where suspense is the key point. She is a women that lives alone and each time she switches the light off a person appears.
IT:
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IT is a film where a child goes one day with a paper boat in the rain and nevers appears.
COME PLAY:
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Come play is a film where a child with autism one day is playing with the filters in his tablet and from that they paranormal things start to happen.
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