Film Genre's

Tuesday 6th December 2022

LO: To explore the concept of film genre.

• Comedy
• Horror
• Fantasy
• Action
• Sci-Fi
• Romance
• Thriller
• Christmas?
• Adventure
• Drama
• Western
• Documentaries
• Animation
• Crime
• Music
• Dystopian?
• Kids?
• Family?
• Historical
• Rom-com

A GENRE IS A STYLE, ESPECIALLY IN THE ARTS, THAT INVOLVES A PARTICULAR SET OF CHARACTERISTICS.

Hybrid: Mixture of 2 or more genre's.

Sub-Genre's: Categories that genre's can be divided into.

Horror

• Friday The 13th 
• Halloween
• Final Destination
• Nightmare On Elm Street
• Jigsaw
• It
• Leprechaun
• It Follows
• Jaws
• Paranormal Activity
• Sinister
• Terrifier
• Killer Babysitter
• Society
• ThanksKilling
• Pet Sematary
• Cujo
• Scream
• Silent Night Deadly Night
• Black Christmas
• The Purge
• The Shining
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
• Wax Museum
• Black Phone
• Krampus

Horror Sub-Genre's:

• Comedy
• Action
• Thriller
• Fantasy

Genre Research

Main Genre Conventions

As with all genres, horror can be separated into 4 essentials elements in cinema; mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and editing. They all influence the audience and create a response to emphasise the genre conventions. The mise-en-scene in horror tends to be dark, rural deserted locations, places that are abandoned and isolated. Props include weapons such as knives, axes and chainsaws as well as supernatural features such as castles, graveyards and haunted houses. This creates mystery and suspicion around the film. The colours tend to be blacks, reds and brown and these connote to the possible danger, blood or evilness. The cinematography includes different shot types; many horrors use to close-ups to emphasise a characters scared emotions or extreme wide shots to create isolation and distance from a character. Horror uses unique and unusual angles to create confusion and unsettling feel with the viewer. The lighting tends to be dark, underexposed with lots of shadows, making the audience feel tense and on edge.
Furthermore, the use of sound, such as a high pitch key, creates a sense of alarm with the audience. There is also an emphasis on footsteps, doors creaking and animal noises, making the audience feel as though they don't know what is round the corner.Finally, editing is horror often tends to have a fast pace and many cuts to make the audience feel distressed, uneasy and builds dramatic tension for perhaps a jump scare.

Mike Flanagan is a famous director of horror films for example 'Doctor Sleep' and 'Hush' which fun fact starred his wife as the protagonist.

John Carpenter is another famous director of the movies 'The Thing' and 'Halloween III: Season Of The Witch'.

George A Romero was also a director of the movies 'Birth Of The Living Dead' and 'Creepshow'.

Tony Todd has associated himself with horror as he is n 'Candyman' and most of the 'Final Destination Movies'.

Kane Hodder has also associated himself in horror as he is in 'Behind The Mask: Rise Of Leslie Vernon'

and even 'Jason X'.

Tuesday 13th December 2022

 LO: To implement genre codes and conventions

Krampus

• They have used christmas tunes and loud effects to show something happening.
• There is a voice over to introduce the villain and to read texts.
• They have used long shots and medium shots.
• They have used short shots to show horror bits and longer ones to move story forward.
• The director is Michael Dougherty and made 4/12/2015

All Eyes

• They have used quite calm and a bit suspenseful tunes.
• There is normal talking from characters.
• They used quite short shots.
• They have used longer shots to show more of the story.
• The director is Todd Greenlee.

Among The Living

• They used a repetitive clicking noise for the background sound.
• There is normal characters talking.
• They used a mixture of wide shots and close ups.
• They used a variety of short clips.
• The director of it is Rob Worse. 

Haunted Trail

• They have used c a repetitive clicking noise during action/horror music.
• There is normal characters speaking the dialogue.
• They used wide and long shots.
• They have used long clips to move the story and small clips for scarier parts.
• The directors are Desi Banks, Paul Lindsay and Jock McKissic