2. Teen Horror- Scream- In this film they used a phone to have the killer talk to a victim and at first she thinks he is asking her out on a date until he asks for her name as he wants to know who he is looking at. The use of the phone in this way is ideal as we cant see the killer, only the girl. This creates suspense and mystery for the viewers. Use of shadows in films also create a fear factor for viewers, for example in Pscho, there is a woman in the shower and you can see a shadow through the curtain until he/she comes close enough to see that it is the murderer and he kills her with a knife.
3. The typical narrative for a horror film is that there will be a hero/heroes and villains and that the villains will end up killing most of the heroes but in the end everything will work out fine and the baddies will be defeated. This is not the case more recently as films and T.V shows have tried the villains winning such as in the show Dead Set, where all the protagonists eventually fall and turn into zombies.
4. In the horror films, there are normally archetypal heroes or villains. The villains are normally trying to kill al the main protagonists whereas the heroes try and survive and eventually stop the villains. For example in Saw (2004) there is 'the jigsaw' who trys to murder everyone by using various traps which poften end up being gory killing machines.
5. A typical location for a horror film would be a haunted house or an isolated island, somewhere no one can reach apart from the protagonists. This helps to build up suspense as we fear for the protagonists life as they have no help, they are on ther own. An example would be 'The exorcism of Emily Rose' where the opening sequence starts off with an establishing shot of a house, with nothing else near it or in sight.
6.In the horror genre, you would expect to see iconography such as a full moon to represent a werewolf or other creatures or an axe to represent murded or death.
7. An example of a suitable costume would be the costume from the 'Scream' series where someone dreeses up to look like the grim reaper, wearing a whit mask to hide his/her face.
8. Lighting is very important in horror films as it means it is harder to see things for the protagonist, which in turn makes us scared. Normally horror films will be in the dark but a lot of the time they shoot in the day and edit it afterwards. Colour also plays a key part in horror films as in 'Seven' they use red to connote blood, gore and death. This is in their opening sequence so it helps to set a scene on what the film will actually be like.
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