Concepts

Concepts Spider Diagram

To lay out our knowledge of horror movies concepts we we created a brainstorm in class on wednesday 15th of september. Since I do not have a scanner and it is quite hard to see a full A3 page on this blog I will type up the brainstorm we did in class.

Settings

• Mountains
• Basements
• Abandoned Buildings
• Cemetery
• Fields
• Old Houses
• Farm
• Carnival
• Spaceships
• Outback
• Hills
• Dreams/Nightmares
• Crypts
• Underground

Lighting

Creates Atmosphere

• Lack of
• Bright light
• Dimmed lights

Characters/Archetypes

• Pedophiles
• Mental Patient
• Cannibals
• Monsters
• Prisoners
• Criminals
• Mutants
• Aliens
• Serial Killer
• Zombie
• Ghost

Camera

Hand held

• Blair Witch Project, Paranormal, Horror, Thriller

Fixed/Spectator

• Hollywood, Action, Drama

Editing

Creates atmosphere

• Quick, fast paced
• Slow, can make something tense

Realism vs. Hollywood

• Realism is often in horror movies, with verisimilitude.
• Unrealistic can take you out of the action