Assignement 4Genre Partner Project.

By Kaya Sumbland and Sanel Homer

Horror / Thriller Horror/Thriller are made to scare and horror their viewers as well as adding suspense and tension as main elements. Creating high levels of anticipation of your worst hidden

fears.

• Alfred Hitchcock shaped horror / thriller with The Lodge, which was a silent film, established in 1926.

• Also Jack the ripper story, then followed by Blackmail in sound.• Established to excite viewers with uncertainty and terror.

Expression of anticipation and tension

Expression of fear

How has Horror / Thriller changed over time?

1946 2011Pianist dies, doesn't include a friend in will, takes corpse hand and plots revenge and stalks.

Investigation into government then leads to abandoned train tunnels beneath Sidney, story come to haunt them.

• Smarter Titles • Developed special effects• Enhanced plots• Better Technology• More exciting, dramatic• More of a mind game

How has it mixed with other genres?

Crime horror / thriller – Central topics serial killers and murderers

Silence of the Lambs.

Revenge horror thriller – an exploration film, central topics suspense and rape

I Spit on your grave.

For Example…. The old dark house - 1932

Director – James WhaleDistributor – Universal PicturesReleased – 1932 Plot - Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in wales and several travellers are admitted to a gloomy mansion. on the run from the police, things get worse and tries to destroy the residence by setting it on fire.

• Weird / Crazy People.

• People randomly dying.

• A chase.

• Scary objects ;

skeleton

•The soft block font

• Sound effects always dramatic

• Black and white

Trailer conventions…

For Example….

Director – Joel SchumacherDistributor – Warner Bros.Released – 1987 Plot - Two new-in-town brothers who discover a local gang of motorcycle youths are more undead than alive. Older brother falls in love with the bunch's lone female - and is gradually becoming a vampire himself.

The Lost Boys - 1987Trailer conventions…

• Attractive guy turns Vampire

• Mysterious things scaring and creeping up on people.

• Teens

• Creepy suspicious guy• Dark setting• Mellow music; turns

to loads of screams

Director – Paul VerhoevenDistributor – Columbia PicturesReleased – 2000Plot - Scientist who heads up a double-secret government team experimenting with turning life-forms invisible.

For Example…. Hollow Man - 2000Trailer conventions…

• Suspicious • A lot of text to create suspense

• Scientists; how it happened • Quote said by the weirdo in the end• Piano music; creepy

Director – Jaume Collet- SerraDistributor – Warner Bros.Released – 2005 Plot – Teenagers stop to a camp sight, end up getting mixed up with the wrong people who turn people into wax

For Example…. House of Wax - 2005Trailer conventions…

• Stalker • Something Abandoned - Town

• The stupid people who go inside or check something out

• Killer chase

• Dramatic fast music

Director – Steven QualeDistributor – Universal PicturesReleased – 2011Plot – People who escape a nearly fatal accident then death come back to haunt them and kills them all brutally.

For Example…. Final Destination 5 - 2011Trailer conventions…

• The Warning

• Someone dying really horrifically (Usually the annoying people)

• Someone who scares easy and have a feeling of what will happen

• Dramatic fast and loud music• Make you jump

What have I learnt?

• The reasons of a horror/thriller

• How to create suspense

• How Build up tension

• Typical conventions to certain types of horror/thriller

• Technologies improvement• What angle shots are affective to use in showing

the best of an emotion.

How they inspired me..

• To build up anticipation and excite with a revealing shock at the end not

showing to much but enough.

DRAMA

• It tells us a story usually involving conflict and emotions through actions and dialogue.

• The drama that we know today goes back to the times of ancient Greece

• The term come from a Greek word meaning ‘action’.

• Drama was established in the 19th century and was only performed on holy occasion.

Definition of drama

The masks helped audience members identify the emotions onstage. The mouths were big so it can make the actors speak more easily, and the facial expressions were exaggerated so that those in the cheap seats could still understand what was going on.

In the days before stories were written they act out there performances waiting for those dramatic stories to be written. But drama would only exist in those people and their memories.

Oskar Schindler is a greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely caring in the middle of the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. He managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Distributed by: Universal picturesReleased on: 30 November 1933

Drama Film

Convention

•Painful•Surprised•Dreadful•Crucial •Evil

Drama/thriller Film

A life of a ballerina - Nina. She is obsessed with dance and the only thinks about getting the star role in the next season. There is a competition with this girl called Lilly who is very talented and the directors has noticed her. They are after the role of the White Swan/Black. There friendship becomes Strange and Nina ends up learning about the dark side from her friend and this dark side could lead to her damage.

Directed by: Darren AronofskyReleased on: December 1st 2010 Distributed by: Fox searchlight pictures

Conventionthe over-the-top camera angles

•Unsettling•compassion•Mad•Crazy

•Mysterious

Film Noir

It’s a cinematic term to describe Hollywood dramas

Film noir is generally established between the times of 1940 and 1950’sJohn Alton created many of Film Noirs iconic images.

French for black film

•Film noir stands for ‘Black Film’•Film Noir is a cinematic term to describe stylish Hollywood crime drama.•It started from the early 1940’s to the late 1950’s•Film noir was established in 2002 for those teaching or studying crime fiction, film and graphic art.

Definition, when, why was it established.

How has Film Noir changed over time

. In the 1960s and 1970s, there were movies like Candidate (1962) and Chinatown(1974), which were influenced by the film noir movies from the 1950s.

•In 2000’s also movies began to be like film noir because they were inspired by them.

Mixing with other genreFilm noir has been mixed with other genre such as detective-mystery to get more interest and success.

Convention of Film Noir

They expect:•Evil•Guilt•Depression•Loneliness•Harshness

They are more centre on:• field camera work•Lighting•Deep focus

•In the middle of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for evil purposes.

Directed by: Jonathan DemmeDistributed by: Paramount Pictures

Released on: July 30th 2004

A private detective investigating an adultery case fall on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.

Directed by: Roman PolanskiDistributed by: Paramount Pictures

Released on: June 20th 1974

Convention of Film Noir

•Good tone•Lighting•Visual style•Arguing•Depression•Frightening•Thrilling

Thriller Film

What have we learnt?

• Conventions are a main part of separating different genres.

• How many different movies have developed over time.

• How movies from this generation are inspired by old movies.