After storyboarding our trailer we had a group discussion in class about similar real media products that we could compare with our own media product and as a group we came up with the horror film 'Shrooms'. This film shares many similar traites to our film Sleep Tight, the setting of a dark forest is apparent in both which emphisises isolation and vulnerability. The main characters in both films turn out to be the actual monsters, this challenges the typical conventions of a horror film as they are female, and are usually stereotypically male.
Repetoire Of Elements
There are eight key elements of genre, which I have discussed below and made them applicable to our finished product.
- Iconography - noose, hanging feet, dead body, screams of pain/terror
- Style- Darkness, black and white lighting to show dream situations, low key lighting
- Setting - Forest which is conventional, civilisation - home and school, contempary - bed psychiatric unit
- Narrative - monster- human with psychological disorder, audience are deliberatly misled
- Characters - monster, friends (community) , newsreader, mother (family)
- Themes - violence, isolation, threat, danger, pursuite, conflict
- Audience Response - frightened, nervous, shocked, intellectul puzzle
- Target Audience - females as they can empathise with the female victims and monster.
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