Genre Research



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today I researched the genre horror. To begin with, common camera angles that I noticed were frequent in horror movies were Close-ups, eye-level shots, point-of-view shots, tracking shots, two-shots, three-shots, and low angles. These common camera angles helped me feel as if I were experiencing these films in real life by putting me in the character's shoes. This also helped create suspense and fear. Moving on, the common costume I analyzed was casual clothes, typically dark clothes and sometimes covered in fake blood. Other than the costumes I noticed that in most of the scenes, there was dark-colored lighting, spotlights, and shadows. This helped create suspense because of the mystery of what is behind the things the viewer cannot see. In horror movies, the setting is typically somewhere abandoned or a home. For props, they typically use weapons such as knives and torture devices to create the gore of the horror. Furthermore, common editing I found in horror movies were inserts, cutaways-, dissolves, and fade-outs. Lastly, common sounds frequently used in horror films are Ambient sound, Dialogue, and non-diegetic sound. These different types of sounds expand the audience's feeling of fear as if they were in the movie. For this research, I watched multiple horror films, including, Saw X, The Nun II, and Smile. In two out of these three movies, they take place in an abandoned area. In all of these movies, they mainly used dark lighting. These movies had all these different film elements in common during the film. Some of the elements I enjoyed in this genre were the makeup-, and the costumes. If I were to use this as my genre, I would like to use the typical makeup because of the creativity that could be made. I would also enjoy the costumes because you could use any piece of clothing and make it unique by adding makeup, cuts, stitches, and more. One element I did not find appealing in the genre was the setting. I would not use the common settings because it is hard to find these abandoned locations for the public to use and it is hard to film in due to the lack of natural lighting and could be difficult to get decent ambient quality sound.  

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