Sunday, 17 February 2013
Typical Characters Found in a Horror
Evil Character
- Usually a male character
-They have some sort of weapon (knife,chainsaw etc)
-Often wear a mask disguising them completely of appearance or emotion,the audience can make no connection to them at all.They are unknown
-This character has the biggest impact on the audience
Female Victim
- Portrayed as being vulnerable,dumb and in need of protection
-Young, blonde and attractive girl
-This character helps build up the suspense as their behaviour makes the audience on edge.
Non-believer
- Male or Female
-They come across as being at ease, like nothing is wrong and nobody needs to worry
-Too confident,usually being the first character to be killed which then leads to the rest of the characters deaths
-The audience at first take their side until things don't go as planned,leaving the audience unsecure and making them panic
Hero
-Male character,strong and masculine build
-Not many horror films have triumph over evil but they usually are most confident chasing the evil character and then never returning
Hysterical character
-Female
-Known to not wanting to leave a room or building due to the loss of a friend.They are tried to be moved by other characters but insist in staying still and break down into hysterics
-Usually stay behind and are killed or other characters are hunted for, leaving this character last. Both ways result in being killed.
The couple
-Always together throughout the whole film
-Typically away from the rest of the characters when the first murder takes place,making them not no that there is a killer on the run
-Usually killed when together
-The audience have an impact on them as they get frustrated with them
Our Production Company
Our Production company is called 'CharCol'. We made this from our names being Charles and Collins, which is why both the 'C's are capital...
Sub-Genres of Horror
B-Movie Horror
Cannibalism or Cannibal Films
Classic Horror
Costume Horror
Creature Features
Demonic Possession
Dracula
Erotic
Frankenstein, other Mad Scientists
Ghosts
Giallo (European, Italian)
Gore
Gothic
Haunted house
Halloween
Horror Comedy
Macabre
Monster
Natural Horror
Psychic Powers
Psychological
Reincarnation
Sadistic
Satanic Stories
Sci-fi
Serial Killers
Sex Horror
Slashers
Teen Terror
Vampires
Witchcraft
Wolves, Werewolves
Zombies
Scary Photos!
Everyone has something that they are either scared of or have a phobia of. The pictures above make us all gasp when we first see them, but we can't help ourselves from looking! Different audiences have different ideas of fear. The most common things that many people today are scared of are blood,spiders,clowns and ghosts. All of these are a pschological aspect that worry and concern people, making them scared and in some cases laugh at when they are unrealistic with the use of prosthetic make up. Looking at the images above, if we were to see these in a horror film, although we do not want to make eye contact with them we have the desire to look and the audience are really scared when infact they know deep down they know they are actually safe. Monday, 11 February 2013
Questionnaire Results
1/9) Phobias/fears
Spiders
Clowns
Dark
2) Most Scary
Alone in the dark
3) Style of horror
Thriller
4) Expect to see in horror
Blood
Killings
Violence
5) Certificate
15-18
6) Scenario
Real life situations
8) Location
Abandoned places/homes
10) Scary something
Sight of something
11) Why
Suspense
Scared
12) Years
2010+
Questionnaire for ideas of our Horror Film
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