2. Genre and Conventions
Genre:
Horror
Thriller
Mystery
Conventions
Blood and Gore
Murder
News in papers about what is
happening
Dark introduction (Lighting and
Music in background)
3. Video and Still Images
This is the YouTube video I have seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4RgkSMXyLY
A mysterious A wounded or Shows that
character, wants bloody hand or a something happened
you to really see child there, but don’t know
what he looks like what
4. Still Images
Deserted
town, showing a
mysterious aura
Dark room showing
that something bad
is happening
A picture of a
baby, giving the
Chains with blood, telling
audience the urge to find
that there’s been violent
who this is
things happening
5. Font
Joint handwriting
• Can show that someone is
researching about human
body
• Writing a form for hospital
work or someone is getting
admitted in a hospital
6. Camera shots/angle/movement
Extreme Close-up
Establishing shot
Shows the characters Show where the film is
emotions, feels scared set, the time, the mood
of the film
Shows where the
filming is and the
scene around it
Long Shot
7. Sound
Non-Diagetic is sounds that used in the background
when filming, and it is the sound effects to make the
scene much effective.
The Non-Diagetic sound that was used in the background for the film that
goes low, high, fast or slow.
Making the heart beat
faster
9. Special Effects and Editing/Pace
Special Effect
Flashback
Showing a form
• Slow motions
of someone from
• Flashback
the past.
Editing/Pace
There are different kinds of
cuts used in the opening How this scene change fast
sequence such as:
• Fast Cuts
• Slow Cuts
10. Images
Denotation- is what the audience is seeing on the
screen/frame.
Connotation- is what the picture on the screen
means.
Connotation-
It can mean that a
Denotation-
person is burning a
A picture of a
memory of him/her
man on fire.
or memory of a dead
person
11. Target Audience
Age group: 15 and up
The age group that could take blood, violence, killing
people which are not censored unlike other films.
Teenagers loves getting scared to death on films, and
its good to think who will be the suspect for the
whole film.