Horror conventions

Horror:

Our film will be a thriller horror, the conventions we have researched including using a filter to make the scene then to look darker to get an eerie effect to the film. We also have been researching the conventions on using non-diegetic. sound within Horror by this we mean on that there could be something which then put’s the character’s at risk in the opening to our film and by when we mean by this we can include a twig snapping and then the wind picking up at a certain part’s of the film where it would be effective and make the audience drawn into the opening to our film.

The setting in the wood’s for both of the film’s is also a good convention to then have in our film due to on how it then gives the film an isolated theme to the film and makes them think that they are abandoned in the wood’s by themselves however the audience don’t know this.

A film similar to this Cabin in the wood’s where in all one night everything goes wrong and that you can see that the wind picks up when it is found just to be a sacrifice of the people in the film. Unfortunately I couldn't get film clips of this however will try to do.

Another film similar to  this is Silence of the Lamb’s which is also set in a wood’s and uses some great shot’s / camera angles which make the audience then to be seemed isolated and nobody around to help them when everything goes wrong. It also have many conventions in the Film.

Typical theme’s for Horror:

Revenge

Haunting

Demons and Exorcisms

Gore

Serial Killers

Religious belief

Ghosts

Themes notably turn into sub genres within horror films for example.

Gothic Films- This is a type of story that contains elements of Goth and horror for example of films Let me in, The woman in black, The mummy.

Slasher film- This is a type of horror film usually involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a violent overlap with the crime and thriller genre. Examples of films is , The Texas chainsaw massacre , Nightmare on elm street.

Psychological horror – This sub genre relies on characters fears, guilt, and eerie sound effects.

Examples of locations which match into the horror convention are an abandoned house m creepy forest and a warehouse.

The history of horror: Horror is known as an ancient art form. People have tried to terrify each other with tales that trigger the less logical parts of our imaginations for as long as we've told stores. From the ballads of the ancient world to modern urban myths, audiences willingly offer themselves up to sadistic storytellers to be scared witless, and they are happy to pay for the privilege.

In today's society people like to scare each other by film's and using mythical creatures or other thing's such as Ghosts , vampires , werewolves or other mythical creatures which then could mean on that people are then are able to have the idea of that it is true that the horror film is real because on how it is included in an everyday scenario however in the past people used to scare each other by telling's myth's / stories on that someone or something was going to kidnap someone or their would be a mass killings.