Genre Q1b questions

1. Genre theorists:
- Burton
- Neale
- Altman
- Chandler
- Metz




2. Conventions of horror
- stock situations
- stock characters
- protagonist
- antagonist
- icons
- themes
- background + décor (setting)
- Final Girl




3. How conventions are used by audiences
the audiences expect what the film will be by the conventions as they can recognise them. They like to watch the repetition and differences of the conventions used.




4.  How conventions are used by producers
the producers use the conventions so that it follows what type of genre they are making. the conventions can be used so that the genres don't get mixed up.




5. What is a sub-genre
when the horror genre is split into other categories that have their own conventions.




6. Give examples
slasher, splatter, zombie, supernatural, vampire/werewolves




7. What does hybrid genre mean?
when there are more than one genre being shown in a film




8.  Give an example of a hybrid horror?
Shaun of the dead- horror/comedy






Burton
genres have recognisable conventions




Neale
genres change conventions so doesn't become predictable


How are the theories used in the trailer?
Burton- we used the woods for some of the trailer, and this follows the conventions of the background of a horror because the film, "Evil Dead" is a zombie film that uses the woods too and we thought that by using this setting, it makes it more effective as the other places we used like the lab and the car park were not as scary.
We also used Burton by using a stock situation, where a girl falls over when being chased as this builds it up of the audience thinking the antagonist will catch up with them.
Our trailer has an icon that can be recognisable when the audience see the film title. The symbol links to the chemicals that are put in the meat that causes the zombies to appear.


Neale- we show a final girl in the trailer that fights the zombie with a bat, a final girl is usually in slasher films like the film, "Scream" and a gun is used in zombie films so we challenged these so not all of the trailer follows the conventions of a zombie film. The zombies are caused by the meat and trailers normally show a virus in a hospital.


Altman- the film can have a visceral pleasure on the audience as we use meat at the start of the trailer, and fake blood to make it look gory, and a hand covered in blood that slowly moves down the door at the end. We needed to try to make the trailer gory as zombie films usually have a lot of blood being shown.