ew this is an independent study unit....like 4 reals....

            Choice #2: HORROR MOVIES R THE BESTTTTT!!!!!

            The three films that I have picked for this genre assignment are: Insidious, The Grudge and You're Next. As you can tell from the list of movies, the genre that I have decided to choose is horror films. I really enjoy discussing this genre because I do not find it scary and it does not give me creepy nightmares. To be honest, I find horror movies quite romantic. You might be wondering why romantic? I find horror movies cute because one finds their inner fears while watching them and especially if you are watching horror movies with a guy friend, it just makes things romantic, if you know what I mean. Anyways, back to the three movies I picked. I chose these movies because they are very enjoyable and they aren't super scary. I have analyzed each movie and there are many codes and conventions that the films follow. All of the movies have a very strong effect on the audience in many ways like, the sound track is slow and eerie using classical music or synthesizers making viewers tense. The music usually is playing at a low volume slowly increasing and getting louder which causes viewers to feel the mood of the scene. 

     

                                         

           The pictures above are long shots from the movies Insidious, The Grudge and You're Next. Long shots build up creepiness and isolated atmosphere kind of feeling to the audience because they are showing many things in the shot. For example the first picture above creates a scary sense due to the little boy sleeping calmly in a dark room with creepy white moonish lighting coming through the windows with the wooded back board walls. The long shot creates an isolated atmosphere because you know that something wrong will happen soon do to the eerie music and the shots.In the second picture you can see is from The Grudge, it shows how the house is located the corner where it is hard to find, making the scene terrifying because its isolated and dull looking. The final picture is from You're Next, making the viewers scared because its a big creepy old house in a wooded area. The reason for many long shots is to create a sense of terror towards the audience.

        The three photos above also show a very dark creepy setting. An important feature that people see while watching horror movies is how the setting is portrayed. The setting is usually shown very dark and dull which also creates a scary terror vibe. This atmosphere makes the audience synthesis how little the characters can see, causing tense. Due to these dark creepy settings the viewers are consistently wondering what will happen or what will pop up and scare them. Not only does the dark and dullness of the picture scary the audience bu the weather of horror movies play a significant roll as well. Usually in scary movies the weather is eerie, chilly  and windy making whistling noises causing a chill down the spin.

         In the video above you can see how the vulnerable character is usually a females because they are stereo typically believed to be the weaker sex and makes an easy victim. In the scene above which is from the film The Grudge you can see how the female got attacked rather then a male because they are portrayed top be weak and less dominating. Adding to that, many horror films have a killer trade mark where the killer does something similar or leaves a mark behind after or before killing someone. In the movie The Grudge the killer has a trademark, where it leave and appears slowly and kills instantly. Another important device that all horror films use is screaming to show a reaction of the scary parts. Usually there is screaming, blood, and weapons used in the movie. those three things pretty much symbolize a horror film, without those things horror films wouldn't be scary. 

  

  

             All of the photo above are from the three films which show the three most important convection that all horror movies have. Screaming, blood and weapons. if the movie does not have all of these things then there will at least be one.