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Sara Nejad CONVENTIONS OF THE HORROR GENRE

Conventions of horror genre

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  • 1. CONVENTIONS OF THE HORROR GENRE Sara Nejad

2. CONVENTIONAL LOCATIONS IN THE HORROR GENREThe AmityvilleThe conjuringMonster house 3. CAMERA FRAMING/MOVEMENT Mostly the cameras are zoomed out to shows the battle and maybe few short zoomed In ,This includes a lot of spinning from the camera around the subject or person who is in shot for that momentThe conjuring(2013)Insidious (2011) 4. CONVENTIONAL PROPS As you can see over 27 years not much has changed directors still use the same objects and props to threaten the villain or protagonist .Saw 4 2007Midnight Madness 1980 5. THE STYLE OF EDITING There's always one sharp cut and then after that about 5 to 10 minutes contention that afterwards it goes back to the main story and when something is happening there would be a lot of mix shots right after each other.The haunting (1963) 6. CONVENTIONAL COSTUME/HAIR/MAKE-UP As you can see can see below they use similar costumes hair and make-up.The evil dead 2012The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920sThe exorcist 1973 7. SOUNDS Normally there's no emotional music and they mostly use secretive musicIn the last past 30years ago the music in horror movies makes the viewer's hearts beat fast and give them the excitement out of stress and fearTourist Trap(2005) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =0saoMv1ecpISinister(2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=-zf5eO3dLpA 8. BODY LANGUAGE/FACIAL GESTURES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbLXQCT2mzYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7VpXYUBrCU 9. SinisterThe Counjuring 10. THEMES There's always one common seen that there's fight between good and bad power over the innocent host. In this battle the good power is always over come the bad onesHalloween6(2006) Return to horror high(1987) 11. LIGHTING Low-key lighting used to create shadowFaust 1922 12. CHARACTER TYPE In horror movies there's always three main character there's always one host, an evil and a hero rescuer. The Exorcist 1973 the hero rescuerThe evilThe host 13. The Conjuring(2013)The hero rescuersThe evilThe host 14. Thank you for watching my presentation