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I also looked at the movie Halloween. I decided to watch this movie as it is one of the movies which define the Horror genre.
Watching the movie i noticed that sound effects were a key part as a sound effect can add suspense and also terror to a key part E.G Whenever Michael Myers will suddenly appear a high pitched screech would be played to alert the Consumer and scare them more.
Also lighting can be a key effect. lower lighting can reflect the dark mood of the scene and can also give it a more scary feel as people tend to have a natural fear to the dark. Also a blue lighting effect can show that there is a supernatural feel to the place E.G The Myers house on the first scene is shown in a blue light, hinting it is not right, and also the shadow of the trees show pointy branches over the house, like daggers.
Emotion is also a key part of a horror movie. Showing emotion means that the Consumer will know how the character is feeling and will react to that in feeling sympathetic for them or feeling the same way. This would be done with close ups which portray the emotion of the face very well.
I also looked at the movie Halloween. I decided to watch this movie as it is one of the movies which define the Horror genre.
Watching the movie i noticed that sound effects were a key part as a sound effect can add suspense and also terror to a key part E.G Whenever Michael Myers will suddenly appear a high pitched screech would be played to alert the Consumer and scare them more.
Also lighting can be a key effect. lower lighting can reflect the dark mood of the scene and can also give it a more scary feel as people tend to have a natural fear to the dark. Also a blue lighting effect can show that there is a supernatural feel to the place E.G The Myers house on the first scene is shown in a blue light, hinting it is not right, and also the shadow of the trees show pointy branches over the house, like daggers.
Emotion is also a key part of a horror movie. Showing emotion means that the Consumer will know how the character is feeling and will react to that in feeling sympathetic for them or feeling the same way. This would be done with close ups which portray the emotion of the face very well.
Horror Features:
•Usually its the female characters who get killed. Theres usually more than one female character, for example in Halloween Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a vulnerable character who doesn't show a sexual appeal, but her friends are the total opposite as they are the busty blonde stereotypes so this is binary opposition.
•Most horror films have females as the main protagonist and one of there Fathers is related to the police. This is used in Halloween and Nightmare On Elm Street because Nancy Thompson's farther is a detective. The police character always dies as they try to be the hero but always fail because horror films are mainly targeted at a youth audience no an older aged target audience.
•Horror films are all about the scary character which is usually addressed as a human serial killer in films like Psycho and Halloween. However sometimes monster and aliens are used as a scary character like in the film Jeepers Creepers or you can have horror films with the supernatural character like aliens etc.
•The horror films with the human killers usually were a mask to cover the face such as in Scream or Halloween. Masks usual signify the scary character who is evil which can relate to one of Propps character types.
•Usually its the female characters who get killed. Theres usually more than one female character, for example in Halloween Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a vulnerable character who doesn't show a sexual appeal, but her friends are the total opposite as they are the busty blonde stereotypes so this is binary opposition.
•Most horror films have females as the main protagonist and one of there Fathers is related to the police. This is used in Halloween and Nightmare On Elm Street because Nancy Thompson's farther is a detective. The police character always dies as they try to be the hero but always fail because horror films are mainly targeted at a youth audience no an older aged target audience.
•Horror films are all about the scary character which is usually addressed as a human serial killer in films like Psycho and Halloween. However sometimes monster and aliens are used as a scary character like in the film Jeepers Creepers or you can have horror films with the supernatural character like aliens etc.
•The horror films with the human killers usually were a mask to cover the face such as in Scream or Halloween. Masks usual signify the scary character who is evil which can relate to one of Propps character types.
Name Research
After research on the title 'Coma' we found there are multiple media texts with the same name:
- Coma, directed Michael Crichton in 1978 (thriller/mystery)
- Coma (TV), directed by Paula van der Oest in 1994
- Coma, directed by Arash Moirian in 2004 (comedy/drama)
- Coma, directed by Liz Garbus in 2007/1 (documentary/reality TV)
- Coma, directed by Anil Baral in 1998 (short)
- Coma, directed by Stuart Charles in 2005 (short)
- Coma, directed by Maria Beatty in 2007/2 (short/fantasy)
- Coma, directed by Luis Felipe Hernandez Alanis in 2006 (short/animation)
(Sources gained from www.imdb.com)
The original Movie Coma was about a woman who is working in a hospital and people are going under operations that are simple procedures and they are going terribly wrong and end up going into comas and then horror ensues as there is so
mething more sinister to it that there seems.
Our movie is similar to this as our narrative also focuses on problems to do with a coma. It is also tied in with the popular BBC Police Drama Life on Mars. This is also to do with a coma but the outside world effects the coma, like in our movie.
The original Movie Coma was about a woman who is working in a hospital and people are going under operations that are simple procedures and they are going terribly wrong and end up going into comas and then horror ensues as there is so
mething more sinister to it that there seems.Our movie is similar to this as our narrative also focuses on problems to do with a coma. It is also tied in with the popular BBC Police Drama Life on Mars. This is also to do with a coma but the outside world effects the coma, like in our movie.
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