CONVENTIONS OF HORROR SUB-GENRES!
Conventions are how things are usually done.
The horror genre has a variety of different aspects, even within sub-genres, that help to cover everything in this genre, these are called conventions.
for example, in out group, we chose the sub-genre, 'paranormal' for our task of creating an opening sequence for a horror film.
In our group we chose to focus on the convention of 'Ghosts and spirits' because we wanted to play with the idea of the innocent little girl in the white dress, and 'is she alive, is she not?' also we had the idea that she could be running away from something, so maybe she's re-living her death or she's running away from something that's perhaps inhuman, for example; an imaginary friend who turns out not to be imaginary and not a friend, or maybe something more personal and fearful for the audience like a diseased family member. The father, just to get a little closer to the heart, emphasizing the fear factor.
Some conventions have been known to sneak into other sub-genres, for example; 'Devil and demon and hell' and 'Witches and occult' overlap into the monsters sub-genre and anything in the monster or paranormal or even killer sub-genre could overlap into psychological.
Examples of this;
The Babadook is a crossover between the monster and psychological sub-genres because the characters feel isolated as the monster is taking over their home, the only place they truly feel safe. the story line is based on the childhood fear that there's a monster in your wardrobe or under your bed but instead, it's not just a fear.
This is effective because the child is the first one to know about the monster and the parent never believes the child until it's too late. Also that thought that the child could be in danger- this targets adults from around the age of twenty and above as many of them have children or are looking to be parents.
Scary Movie mixes comedy with the killer sub-genre because it mocks everything that makes up a horror movie. The purpose of this was to make the audience laugh one moment and scream the next. this has two purposes;
- To scare the audience more because it's unexpected. if the mood starts off all funny and then changes all of a sudden, the audience would get confused and not know exactly what's going on. and not knowing is what scares people the most.
- To play with the audiences emotions- this stops the audience from getting bored.
The Babadook is a crossover between the monster and psychological sub-genres because the characters feel isolated as the monster is taking over their home, the only place they truly feel safe. the story line is based on the childhood fear that there's a monster in your wardrobe or under your bed but instead, it's not just a fear.This is effective because the child is the first one to know about the monster and the parent never believes the child until it's too late. Also that thought that the child could be in danger- this targets adults from around the age of twenty and above as many of them have children or are looking to be parents.
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Scary Movie mixes comedy with the killer sub-genre because it mocks everything that makes up a horror movie. The purpose of this was to make the audience laugh one moment and scream the next. this has two purposes;- To scare the audience more because it's unexpected. if the mood starts off all funny and then changes all of a sudden, the audience would get confused and not know exactly what's going on. and not knowing is what scares people the most.
- To play with the audiences emotions- this stops the audience from getting bored.
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