• Small communities

• Isolated places

• Dark streets

• Narrow alleyways

• Places with a dark history (insane asylums)

Camerawork- The camera work is some what not natural looking. High angle shots are used to highlight a vulnerable victim and low angle to enhance fear and power.

Points of view shots are used to show the tension behind the killers eyes.

Framework with depth of field to make it hard to see clear image.

Ambient diegetic sounds like footsteps and non-diegetic sounds like heartbeats. Close up shots used to help the audience

identify fear on faces and enigma codes.

Editing can create unsettling tension and suspense, if it is slowed down then you anticipate something to surprise you. Fast paced makes it more frantic.

Visual style is often dark hazy colour schemes. Lighting is non-

naturalistic, low key with shadowing and unfamiliar shapes, motivated by fires and torches.

Props are featured to identify the genre- weapons, masks and costumes.

Characters to create the antagonist involve classic horror conventions of werewolves, vampires, mummies and monsters.

StorylineCharacters

Sub-genres

Some horror movies are left as an unending closure where there is reason to believe that there can be a following sequel, for example in a horror that involves the killing of the antagonist but the ending shows reason to believe the antagonist is still alive; like the Freddy Krueger films.

There is always a protagonist against an antagonist, whether it be a villain ,disease or natural disaster. In most traditional killing films the survivors are most likely to be female; if there is any. Villains are typically formulated from characters with previous childhood past trauma or psychotic medial issues; like Jason from Friday the 13th drowning, Freddy Kruger being burnt alive, leatherface from Texas chainsaw massacre being mentally impaired.

Supernatural- Elements that can’t be found in the real world. Dark fantasy- Horror with a distinctly fantastical setting. Sci-Fi- aspects (aliens, robots, space travel) are used to precipitate the overriding horror. Psychological horror- driven by characters’ fears and focused more on psychological dread than on murder, mutilation, and gore. Could be supernatural, but is more often associated with those twists where the protagonist turns out to be insane. Occult- Horror with elements of religion, magic and possession. Thriller- relies on real-life situations to generate horror through serial killers, deadly situations, natural disasters, and psychopaths. Action- where elements of action scenes are present e.g. Fight scenes.

CHARACTERS

The hero

‘I am legend’ ‘Nightmare on elm street’

‘underworld’

‘scream’ ‘cabin in the woods’

The moral character who dies

‘Ginger snaps’ ’

‘Nightmare on elm street’

‘Dawn of the dead’

The police officer‘scream’

‘jaws’

‘se7en’ ‘eight legged freaks’

The antagonist

‘Nightmare on elm street’

‘alien’

‘mama’

‘Friday the 13th’

• Good Vs evil

• Depression

• Cult

• Childhood issues

• Science gone wrong

• Supernatural

• Beyond death

• Madness/insanity

• Suicide

• Nightmares

• Envy

• Lust

• Revenge