Genre Research: Horror

 This PowerPoint describes the horror genre and the conventions that can be found within it. Common CLAMPS, sound, camera movements, angles, and elements are all found within this document. The PowerPoint begins with a title slide that includes a song, which is played throughout the PowerPoint, and several pictures of characters from horror movies. The song is a clip that was found on YouTube. We used it because we thought it sounded just like a song or sting that would be used in horror movies. The PowerPoint then goes on to the common lighting within the genre. In order to find this, we used background information from previous movies that we have watched. From those movies, we were able to identify which types of lighting coincided with the lighting we normally saw in horror movies. We looked online at different websites as well in order to figure out the types of lighting there were in movies. There are pictures used as well, to show examples of lighting, and a description underneath each picture. Each description describes the effect of the type of lighting, or convention, as the descriptions are used throughout the PowerPoint. This process of researching, using background information, and commenting on what was being presented was used for each type of convention within the PowerPoint. We used transitions to go from one slide to the next throughout the PowerPoint. We tried finding transitions that coincided with what was being presented on each slide. This can be seen on the lighting slides, where we used a flash transition. In these transitions a lot of light is included on screen. The light then goes away and the previous slide is replaced with the next slide. After the common lighting in horror movie is shown, the PowerPoint then goes on to common camera angles. The process of finding the angles was the same as lighting. Next, common camera movement in horror movies is shown. Unlike the previous slides, these slides include videos. In order to find the videos, we looked online at different horror movie clips. When we found one that used the movement being talked about, we included it in the PowerPoint. Mis-en-scene is shown next, with photos of common makeup, costumes, and acting used. This slide had the same process of research as the angle and lighting slides. After the mis-en-scene slides, elements of the genre are shown. We researched common elements online and used that information to create that slide. After this was done, we looked at movies within the horror genre and added the movie posters to the "examples of horror films" slide. Next, to find common sound in horror movies, we looked online at horror movie clips, similarly to the process of finding the videos for the common camera movements. After finding the appropriate scenes, we added them to the PowerPoint and commented on the impact and significance of the sound within horror movies. The last thing we did was state what elements of horror movies appeal and don't appeal to us. We used our experiences with horror movies to comment what we liked, the costumes, and what we did not like, the music.