“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.”
David Cronenberg
THE ART OF HORROR FILMS
✔ Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
✔ Nosferatu (1922)✔ Dracula (1931)
✔ Dracula Untold (2014)
THE CHANGING FACE OF DRACULA
HORROR IS ART✔ Gothic Horror Literature paved the way for the film
horror genre.✔ Lumiere Brothers (Spook Tale) and George Melies (
The Manor of the Devil) were the first to produce ‘Horror’ on film.
✔ German expressionism was foundered. It looked at expression over realism.
✔ The first horror film made in this creative and artistic movement was ‘The Cabinet of Dr Caligari’.
✔ Within this movement these other horror films were made: The Golem (1920), Nosferatu (1922) and Faust (1926)
WHAT IS GENRE?
The word genre derives from French and means ‘type’ or ‘kind’.
In a study of media texts it is used to divide texts into easily identifiable categories.
THE HORROR GENRECreate a spider diagram in your groups about what you would expect to see/experience/ hear in a horror film.
Horror
YOUR TASK…In groups you are going to create a trailer for your own horror film idea, set in a college.
You will need to:
Tuesday
Plan and create a narrative Write a short treatment Create a storyboard following the iMovie template Present your idea to the rest of the group.
Wednesday
Film a trailer using the iPad Edit your trailer using the iMovie template.
At the end of the week your trailers will be screened and the best one will win a prize.
✔ Film trailers come in various lengths and versions, and are initially designed to intrigue audiences about the film.
✔ This type of trailer is called a 'teaser' and they contain 'enigmas' (unsolved clues as to what might happen.)
✔ Any trailers released thereafter provide audiences with further information and clues, in the hope of persuading them to go and see it.
FILM TRAILER RESEARCH