Monday 8 November 2010

Conventions of horror films

Horror films are made generally to: frighten, panic, cause alarm, invoke hidden fears, captivate audience, often conclude in a shocking finale. For different types of people, horror films can deal with different fears such as alienation, death, identity and the unknown.
There is always a lead character or protagonist, who often comes out as the survivor.
The killer/monster/villain often has a trademark such as how he kills victims or the weapons he uses. For example in the "Saw" films, the killers trademark is to trick his victims into killing themselves. In nightmare on elmstreet, victims are killed through their dreams.
The characters fall prey to an evil force that is trying to victimise them in some way.
Sometimes the killer/villain wants to corrupt its victims by making them do something evil, for example: the shining.
There is often a fight between good and evil.

We have taken these conventions into consideration and plan to create a trailer using some of then, but putting our own unique twist on our trailer.

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