JP: Horror and its Sub-Genres
Horror has many key concepts that we should conisder in our production; making up the generic formula. These include:
- Being flexible and dynamic.
- Being used institutionally to connect with an audience.
- Being used as a blueprint, framework, label, contract.
- Having overriding conventions such as: the Scare Factor, the Monster, the Use of Lighting, Recognisable Iconography (including location, props and casting), and the Use of Sound.
- Having a clear protagonist(s) / victim(s).
- Having archetypes of both heroes and villains.
- The inclusion of stock characters, plots and situations.
- Having a set theme.
Horror also contains sub-genres, one of which we should focus on for our production. These include:
- Slasher
- Psychological
- Zombie
- Torture
- Monster
- Gothic
- Supernatural
- Sci-fi
- Comedy / Parody
In regards to the sub-genre, I believe we should focus on creating an opening to a psychological horror film as it has a clear style with the conventions being easily accessible for us to conform to through our access to limited props and locations.
I agree with the idea of utilising aspects of psychological horror- but there are a number of different styles that can be used, often taking influence from other sub-genres. Maybe it'd be helpful to see which aspects of other film styles we could take on? Be creative :)
ReplyDeleteThat sounds good, I think combining psychological horror with monster could work quite well. I'll do some background research on monster horror to see if it could work. :)
ReplyDeleteHey i thought i would do some research into supernatural horrors after looking this post, i reckon we may be able to use some of the techniques that are conventional in this sub-genre in our final piece. :)
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