This pie chart shows the results of the class vote, of which was our favourite horror sub-genre. Each meneber of the clas had to vote for one sub-genre they like the most. the most popluar sub-genre in the class was psychological horror films having 12 votes in the class, whereas the least popular was action having 3 votes in the class
The trailer shows what appears to be a normal family living
there normal life together. We see a metronome being used and hear the noise
which it creates setting a slow pace to the trailer. The sound of parallel music disrupts the happy
life of the family, as this seems to be the part of the trailer where all the
bad things start to go wrong. What appears to be the mother in the film is
shown to be walking into a room where a rocking horse is moving on its own accord,
suggesting a ghostly presence. At this stage of the trailer we see certain
family members lurking around the house acting cautious, as if something is in
the house.
Which positive, clever or interesting aspects do you
think you could include in your own trailer? What generic features are
fulfilled well?
I liked the way in which the metronome is being played in
the background creating a slow and steady pace at the start of the trailer. At the
end of the trailer a wide open mouth is being zoomed in to and sounds as if the
person is screaming, I like this part of the trailer because it adds a jump
scare at the end.
Which aspects of the trailer did you think were
unsuccessful, and would put off its target audience? How is it disappointing?
I didn’t like the pace of this trailer I thought the
majority of it was slow and only picked up a little faster towards the end. I think
if the trailer had a faster pace it would have been more effective to the genre
of horror. I thought the scenes in the trailer where being dragged out
revealing more of what is going to happen in the film.
I gave this trailer a 6/10 mainly because of the pace and
how much of the film where shown in the trailer. I think it could have had more
aspects from the genre checklist including a better glimpse of the slow moving
monster/psycho serial killer.
The trailer shows a mother and her children playing hide
and seek. The mother is blindfolded and the children must clap to help the
mother find them. The mother is in a bedroom and hears clapping coming from the
wardrobe. She walks towards it but finds out her children were hiding in
different rooms. When the children goes to bed the mum hears light laughter and
clapping coming from downstairs, she looks over the landing banister to see
that a load of photo frames have fallen of the wall. The mum then goes down to
the basement where she thinks the clapping is coming fromand id locked inside it. the light bulb in the basement is then turned on and within a couople of seconds the bulb is blown creating darkness again.
Which positive, clever or interesting aspects do you
think you could include in your own trailer? What generic features are
fulfilled well?
I liked the way in this trailer that the scenes all
flowed well together, with fades to black. I thought the storyline of the
trailer worked well to create suspense to the viewer. I liked the use of
restricted narration in this trailer when the mum is locked in the basement and
we gear her screaming. At the end of the trailer a light child’s lullaby is
being played which again creates suspense and mystery about the film.
Which aspects of the trailer did you think were
unsuccessful, and would put off its target audience? How is it disappointing?
There wasn’t anything that I spotted that I thought didn’t
work well during this trailer. It is one of the best I have seen from the genre
of horror. However if I was to pick at something I would say the pace in the
middle of the trailer could have been faster than what it was.
I gave this trailer a 9/10 becasue it drew me in wanting to see more of the film and making me go to see it at the cinema. i thought the jump scares whcich were used frewuently made the trailer more intense. i think this trailer links very well tto the genre checklist and for a psychological horror.
The trailer shows a group of people celebrating at what
appears to be a leaving party for one of their friends. The party is disturbed
by a loud, horrific noise coming from outside. The electricity is later cut of
making everywhere dark. The guests at the party go up onto the roof to
investigate, to see that the city is under stack.
Which positive, clever or interesting aspects do you
think you could include in your own trailer? What generic features are
fulfilled well?
I liked the way in this trailer that the scenes all
flowed well together, and the fast pace of the trailer, which I thought drew
the audience in and made them interested in the film. I like the way the use of
a handheld camera was used, making the audience feel a part of the film, and
making the shot look disorientated showing chaos. There is dramatic irony used
in this trailer when we get a glimpse of the city being attacked, and then we
get a shot of a guest at the party saying “it’s going to be a good night”
adding a sense of mystery to the trailer.
Which aspects of the trailer did you think were
unsuccessful, and would put off its target audience? How is it disappointing?
Turing this trailer I didn’t notice any horror aspects
from the genre checklist, which makes me think that the filmmakers are trying
to sell this film as an action instead of a horror.
What was the trailers average score in class? Why did it
receive that mark?
The average score for this trailer was 7.5/10 making this
the second popular trailer in the class. I thought the trailer deserved this
score because of how well it was put together creating pace, and suspense. I
think thi9s trailer would have received higher marks if it included more horror
aspects.
I have created this mood board to show a variety of fonts which i found interesting. i found theese fonts on the website http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=110. Theese fonts link well to the horror genre for many reasons. The majority of the fonts appear to have sharp lines going through them making them look more dramitic and eye cathcing. some of the fonts i have looked at have a texctured like feel to them making them appear is if they have been written in blood, liniomg to the theme of horror.
i Have experimneted with using the title of my film "the Demented" for some of the fonts, and for the others i have experimneted with my horror magazine cover "Horrific". i will chooses one of theese fonts each for my poster and magazine cover.
The trailer shows a group of people watching a film in a
cinema. During the trailer the audience sees a zombie sitting in the cinema
with the people watching the film.
Which positive, clever or interesting aspects do you
think you could include in your own trailer? What generic features are
fulfilled well?
I didn’t really enjoy this trailer but I liked the
originality of having a zombie sitting amongst an audience in the cinema
watching a film.
Which aspects of the trailer did you think were
unsuccessful, and would put off its target audience? How is it disappointing?
I thought there was a lot wrong with this trailer
starting with the voice over. The voice over for me was too deep and annoying.
The trailer didn’t scream horror to me because I didn’t see enough horror
aspects from the genre checklist, for example there wasn’t enough gore being
shown. I thought the pace was really slow for a horror trailer and didn’t speed
up towards the end which it should have done. There wasn’t a clear storyline
shown in the trailer so I didn’t really know what the film was about, it kept
going back showing the audience in the cinema with the zombie. We see a close
up popcorn falling out of someone’s hand which doesn’t have no relevance to the
genre. There wasn’t a jump scare at the end of the trailer which would have
made it more exciting. The contrapuntal music at the end of the trailer makes
it seem like it is advertising a horror.
What was the trailers average score in class? Why did it
receive that mark?
The average score for this trailer was 2/10 making it one
of the least popular trailers we viewed in class. I think this trailer got the
response it got because it wasn’t as exciting as some of the others we viewed
in class. The pace of the trailer was too slow making it rather boring to sit
and watch and didn’t scream out the audience horror.
The trailer shows a group of friends who end up going to
an abandoned cabin in the woods, after being there for a while they find an old
book and a possessed like girl in one of the rooms within the cabin. The
trailer later reveals that the book unleashes evil.
Which positive, clever or interesting aspects do you
think you could include in your own trailer? What generic features are
fulfilled well?
I thought the speed of the trailer was good because it
wasn’t too fast so the audience lost interest and it wasn’t too slow neither
which made the audience get bored. There was a slow start to the trailer making
the pace right as it sped up more towards the end. I also thought the trailer
didn’t give too much information away to the viewer. The dialogue which was in
the trailer added a dramatic effect with the music which as being played over
the top of it.
Which aspects of the trailer did you think were
unsuccessful, and would put off its target audience? How is it disappointing?
I think the trailer should have maybe had more gore as it
was limited. The gore which was in the trailer also needed to be more accurate
as the blood which was used was orange instead of a dark red colour.
What was the trailers average score in class? Why did it
receive that mark?
The average score for this trailer was 8.5/10 making it
one of the popular trailers we viewed in class. I think this trailer got the
response it got because it was well created, in the sense of what clips it
included and the pace of it. This trailer also drew the audience in, making
them want to see the film.
Horror movies have long
served both purposes. They deliver thrills by the hearseload, as well as
telling us stories of the dark, forbidden side of life (and death) - cautionary
tales for grownups. They also provide a revealing mirror image of the anxieties
of their time. 1920’s Darkness and
shadows, such important features of modern horror, were impossible to show on
the film stock available at the time, so the sequences, for example in Nosferatu, where we see a
vampire leaping amongst gravestones in what appears to be broad daylight, seem
doubly surreal to us now. 1930’s
Horror movies were reborn in the 1930s. The advent of sound, as well as
changing the whole nature of cinema forever, had a huge impact on the horror
genre.The dreamlike imagery of the 1920s, the films peopled by ghostly wraiths
floating silently through the terror of mortals, their grotesque death masks a
visual representation of 'horror', were replaced by monsters that grunted and
groaned and howled. 1940’s if the horror movies of the
1930s had dealt in well-established fictional monsters, looking back towards
the nineteenth century for inspiration, the 1940s reflected the internalisation
of the horror market. The Americans looked at themselves as “safe”, whereas
everything else, particularly anything hailing from that frightening, chaotic,
unreasonable and uncontrolled place known as Europe was dangerous.
1950’s In ten short years the concept of a horrific monster had altered
irrevocably. Faces who had fought on both sides in WW2, the
developers of the atom bomb and the death camp, mad scientists indeed whose
activities would have unnerved even Victor Frankenstein or Dr Moreau.
1960’s The 1960s horror that
was more rooted in reality, more believable, more sophisticated, that dealt
with some of the issues they faced in a rapidly changing world. 1970’s One genuine fear apparent in the
horror films of the 1970s is the fear of children, and the fear of the messy,
painful and often fatal process of childbirth. Children are the focus of horror in many key 1960s films Village of the Damned(1960) really reinforces
that kids can be spookyand unwanted. 1980’s Horror movies of the
1980s (which begin in 1979 with Alien) exist at the glorious watershed when special
visual effects finally caught up with the gory imaginings of horror fans and
movie makers. Technical advances in the field of animatronics, and liquid and
foam latex meant that the human frame could be distorted to an entirely new
dimension, onscreen, in realistic close up. 1990’s
It can be argued that the so-called psychological thriller took
precedence over horror in the first half of the 1990s, and indeed, many dark,
disturbing films of this period describe themselves as thriller, not horror.
Yet directors such as Jonathan Demme were adopting the codes and conventions of
the horror genre, when pacing their plot, when representing their characters,
and when manipulating the shock/suspense mechanisms of their audience.
2000
In It seems that
audiences wanted a good, group scare as a form of escapism. The
monsters have had to change, however. Gone were the lone psychopaths of the
1990s, far too reminiscent of media portrayals of bin Laden, the madman in his
cave. As the shock and awe of twenty first century warfare spread across TV
screens, cinematic horror had to offer an alternative, whilst still tapping
into the prevailing cultural mood.
