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horror codes and conventions
Florence Aurora
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movies have a bunch of codes in them which make up the genre, for example horror would use scary music and jumpscares, sci-fi would use spaceships and aliens, action would use violence, musicals have music to show the characters emotions, comedies try to make us laugh
Examples of horror films
Subgenres of horror
Horror uses unique and unusual angles to create confusion and an unsettling feel with the viewer.
it uses dark lighting, with lots of shadows, to make the audience feel tense, and they use sound to create a sense of danger for the audience
- knives
- guns
- hidden identity of villains
- isolated areas
- woods
- haunted houses
- scary music
- screaming
- zombies
- vampires
- monsters
- murderers
- clowns
- crows
- bats
- suicide
- ghosts
- revenge
- basements
- mansions
horror codes and conventions
Genre Theory and codes and conventions
genre theory is the categorization of different structural elements and patterns which can be found in collections of stories.