notes about the horror genre part 3

Postmodern:
The impact of postmodern media on audiences and the ways in which we think about texts and movies
Postmodern media rejects the idea that any media product is of any greater value than another.

Female Leads:

There is an establised tradition of female leads within a horror genre, because female leads are generally virgins which shows that they are rather vunerable.

Social groups:

Social groups are groups of individuals in the society. For example, religion, gender, sexuality, age and disablity. These social groups are represented differently in horror movies.

Teenagers are represented in the media as:

• Lazy
• Anti Social Behaviour
• Sexual
• Hedonistc
• Pleasure Seeking
• Materlistic
• Reckless
• Fashion Conscious
• Body image Consious

Media representation can also be unrealistic e.g body image tehre is also a very negative and sexual representation of woman

In the film "The Shining" the main female protagonist also turned out to be a "final girl" she survived to the end. However the reprentation of the final girl varied throughout the film. I know this because she went from being strong and weak. This shows that the repesentation of woman in horror films can be shown in differently.

notes about the horror genre part 2

Equirbliam music - "Motifs are incidental"
Equirbliam is when the opposing forces or influences are balanced or in the norm.

Erigm a code - A narrative by an unawnsered question
Proairetic/Action code - Drives narrative through antciptation of an actions resolution

Linear - Start to finish
Non Linear - Jumbeled
Circular - Starts where it finishes
Parrel Narrative - Two narrated parts of a story set in the same place and same time.
Convergent Narrative - Come together
Interweaving Narrative - Two people whose lives come together and go apart again
Flashback - A scene where the character has a vision from his/her past, usually something that gives a clue or something back for example death.
Ellipsis - Things such as scenes missing

Notes about the horror genre

Common Elements:

• Tension
• Fear
• Todorovs Theory
• Dark/Light Contrast
• Teenagers can relate
• Setting (Colleges/House/Small Towns) - Safety is theartned
• Final girl
• Element of suprise
• Disgust

The horror genre:

An attempt to make the audience experience fright fear or digust. Narratives often involve an evil force, event or supernatural character.

Gore fest = Zombie/Undead "Thriller" reflects to it

Denotation

Connotation

Camera Angle: 2 Shot

A two shot is a type of shor employed in the film industry in which the frame encompasses a view of two people (the subjects). The subjects do not have to be next to each other, and there are many common two shots which have one subject n the foreground and the other subject in the backgrouns. The shots are also used to show the emotional reactions between the subjects.

There are many genre's of horror such as:

• Psychological
• Science fiction
• Comedy
• Slasher
• Desomic
• Gore
• Apoclyptic/Armageddon

Heroine is usually the final girl, she s good looking and vunurable but resourceful, she usually has a past story such as her mother dying.
Villians can appear to be the hero. However this is not always obvious. This is driven by, revenge, mental instablity, love for the female and obessions. Ofren has an object/weapon (iconography) that signfies them, for example in "Scream" there is iconography of the phone, the mask and the knife.