Horror codes and conventions
For a horror genre the target audience is aimed at the male
target and mainly at the teenaged years, the narrative content of the film is
predicable, in which you are able to predict what happens next but this causes
suspense and tension. As well as there is a clear binary opposition where there
is clear good characters and clear bad characters. Furthermore there is a high
use of low key lighting making the film very dull and dark, which is in
connection to evil and horror. Also there is a dominant representation of
gender where the male is usually the villain and the women is usually the
victim. Teenagers and young adults are usually the characters place in a horror
film due to their low common sense and high determination. The camera angles
mainly consists of close up shots, point of view and low angle shots which all
inherit a scary theme. Lastly they also use hand held camera shots to form
audience identification.
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