What is our Genre?
Advantages and Disadvantages
Codes
ADVANTAGES
- Easy to film
- Lighting
- Accessible locations
- Low cost
- Minimal characters
DISADVANTAGES
- Stereotypical
- Not appealing to all audiences
- Must be scary
- Taunting non-diegetic and diegetic sound
- Build up of tension through mise-en-scene
- Moment of catharsis
- Dark colours
- Low key lighting
- Special effects
- Dettachment from real life
Our Initial Ideas
Horror
SUB GENRE- Psychological Horror Drama
- Phone call
- Everyday objects/habits
- Car parks
- Black outs
- Build of tensions
- Scared young girl
- Make viewer doubt own belief
- Isolation
- Make the audience question what they have seen
- use of creepy sound affects (dripping, Polaroid camera printing etc.)
- Silhouette
Conventions
- Damsel in distress
- Gender of main character
- Blood and gore
- Sudden Jumps
- Jump cuts
- Contrasting visual appearances to character mentality