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Psychology Horror Action Horror

Cameron Turner
The Shinning Blade
Dawn of Body Horror
The Ring
Genre Gothic Horror The Dead Cabin

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SCI-FI-
Genres I Enjoy

I enjoy sci-fi films as it allows the human mind to

Dracula
Frankens
tein
The
Fever
Teeth
Invasion
Science
explore the unknown. Leaving our minds as our ingenuity,
HORROR Fiction
we could consider the ambiguity of societies inventions Horror
and innovations, Comedy Horror
Action- Action films help stimulate the exhilaration of the Alien
Shawn of
human mind and body. They showcase warfare, conflict The Mist
the Dead
and violence in a very intricate way; allowing the audience Slasher Horror Zombie Film
Gremlins
to feel engaged and excited by the film. Scary Psycho
Horror- I like to see the horror genre as a black hole. A Dawn of the
The Texas
void that is so convoluted and confined in its own bubble. dead
Chains Saw I am Legend
As they dive into the unknown they play with the
Massacre
audiences emotions and play with them to gain control.
Horror
The reason I have chosen Horror for my A2 coursework is
down to the pure fact that I enjoy the genre and I feel like
you are able to edit, film and publish an intricate and
inventive sequence of clips. Many people enjoy horror films
Horror is a fiction genre of literature, and film which is intended to, or has therefore it has a rather broad audience and there are
the capacity to frighten, disgust and startle their readers or viewers by variety of reasons for this factor. Horror films are very
including nightmares, fears, abhorrence and terror of the unknown. flexible and producers have a lot of sub-genres to work with.
Breaching out into the dark void of fantasies while including the morbid and Horror films are designed to play with the audiences
supernatural themes. Making horror an unpredictable and enchanting emotions by creating angst and dread by using the
genre.
audiences greatest fears against them. However, to create
Containing complex characters and a peculiar yet effective character
a true horror film I believe the audience hate to connect to
design the plot within the genre often include encroachment of an evil
the characters and believe the narrative as well as engage
force. Frequent villains found within the genre include ghosts, aliens,
demons, werewolves, vampires, serial killers, cannibals, monsters and in it.
zombies.
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After taking inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes: The Hound
of The Baskervilles. This low-class horror film took the market by storm as one of
the worlds greatest horror film ever. The jaw dropping costume designs and
make-up help create an immaculate setting and due to this the movie draws its
audience in and makes them engage with it. Class acting displays from Christopher
Lee and Peter Cushing showcase how an excellent cast can produce such an My film will follow both Todorov and Proppss
amazing film.
theories. Todorov believed that a narrative
After watching this movie, I realised how critical these factors were and how much followed a similar structure throughout many
they contributed towards creating a blockbuster. However, i also noticed that the films. It starts with an equilibrium and peace,
disconnected and vague writing of Sir Doyle helped create a mystical and dark which is then disrupted. The disequilibrium is
story plot. then brought to a halt by the protagonist,
thus being the end of disequilibrium and it
Therefore, I decided to go for a dark and twisted turn in my film. Many young will return to equilibrium. Propp, believed
people go missing and a website called www.missingkids.co.uk helps raise there was a character development theory
awareness for the loss of the youth. (See Fig. 2.) And the sad reality of this all is (Referenced in Character Profile). He believed
that these children are rarely found. Therefore, I decided to crate my main plot that every story has a hero, villain, the
around a missing child/teenager for a real and an effective effect on donor, the false hero, the helper, the
princess and her father.
The reasons I have chosen to follow these
theories are because they are very
conventional in effective horror films. It takes
the audience. Overall, my plot will contain complex
the audience through an emotional
characters, dark and creepy settings, use of costume and
rollercoaster which allows me to unnerve
make- up design and finally a dark, vague and a deceptive
them and catch them off-guard.
story.
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When creating and outlining my narrative I picked out the two main sub
genres that appealed to me on the spider diagram (Genre page). These were-
Gothic Horror and Slasher Horror. These two genres are similar yet different in very
delicate ways. I knew that if I could incorporate these two genres together I had the
2) The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - The American gothic silent
opportunity movie a
to create helped
magicalmeyetwork on my character
terrifying piece. After development, with the
deciding on these two
Films
implementation I took Inspiration from: of Todorovs theory I was able to create my set list of characters. Similarly to Phantom of the
genres I designed a questionnaire (attached) asking 10 people what freaked them
Opera I wanted to make my antagonist/villain the main out the and centred
most, whichcharacter.
gender theyHowever, not to
preferred many films
be the do this as the
protagonist, whatprotagonist
setting they
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is usually deemed the fanmass
favourite. Although, there have been some
preferred and howmemorable villains
big a factor doesand one ofplay
make-up which in is Phantom
a film. Afterofanalysing
the Operas
my
fantasy/drama I took amounts of

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very inspiration
own phantom and thus it was great to look to this for
results I found majority of the participators preferred a female protagonist in a of
inspiration. Examples of how I will include this in my film would be the lack
from this film. Jaw dropping
information and sight of the antagonist that I will give to the audience;
desolated thus leaving
and isolated the The
location. character a mysterious
frightening aspect of aura
thearound
film was him.
varied as
scenery and visual effects. However, the
film has inspired me to create an predicted; individuals have different fears and not
3) 10 Cloverfield Lane Despite not being a horror film but a mystery, the protagonist in the film was in my opinion near perfect; everything will scare everyone.
the
elaborate
audience didntand
know disconnected
whether to side storyline. I
with Michelle (theHowever, every
protagonist) or individual
Howard (the agreed that jump
antagonist) scares
as the areshowed
hero the most effective
unusual way
signs ofto

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fear, have incorporated this into the firsttoscene scare someone.
to theOverall, the female protagonist will bewithin
walking thethrough the woods
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hatred and evil. The film was able add villain components protagonist and this led to confusion audience.
Therefore, I took inspiration from this and decided to subsume some unlikely characteristics to the protagonist. This is not shown her
sequence as the audience are thrown with an unusual human being (a stalker) shortly behind. Thus kidnapping and
in the
straight
opening into the but
two minutes story.this is indispensable to the character creatingdevelopment.
disequilibrium.
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