PPT-Horror Film Codes and Conventions

JC Clapp North Seattle College Narrative Structure Standard Chronological Structure with beginning middle end Conflict Struggle Realization Often there is heavy foreshadowing to build tension. There are various types of movie posters such as teaser trailer posters, DVD release posters and cinema release posters. However they all advertise the poster and aim to draw an audience in to see the movie. . A2 MEDIA EVALUATION. AREK STEPANIAN & ALEX MACLEAN. 1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?. Choice of Genre. PSYCHOLOGICAL / THRILLER. Unit 27 . Documentary Formats . An expository documentary is a documentary that exposes a person or a topic. . The codes and conventions of an expository are:. A voice over . Rhetorical questions . Facts and figures . 1. Audience Feedback and Personal Response. 2. Written Response to . Evaluation Questions. 3. Comparison with real film posters.. All evaluations have to been on your blog by next week.. Print Screen or Place the image of your film poster here.. What Makes a Horror Film?. As with all . genres. the label is a loose generalisation designed to characterise . visual. or . thematic . elements that typify a product in the mind of the consumer. . Learning Objective:. T. o apply knowledge of codes and conventions to . Action-Adventure . film trailers. Analysing Trailers. Analyse the trailer for . Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls. POSSIBLE TITLES: ‘THE ASSASSIN’ - ‘4. TH. DIMENTION’ – ‘1990 UNTOLD’ – ‘DEADLY INSTINCT’ – ‘THE DEVILS PLAYGROUND’. POSSIBLE TAGLINES: “THE ASSASSIN HAS ARRIVED” - “TWO MORE YEARS TILL THE 47. . Ideas. . Evil lurks darkness within the blood grave. A devilish hand. Scary writings(with blood shady child In background grave yard . Video by: Alex Galloway. ENG 233. October 8, 2015. Edgar Allan Poe: A History. Born in Boston to two actors. His mother and father were not that successful.. His father left the family in 1810, and his mother died in 1811. . To understand the codes & conventions of film posters. Codes & conventions. Codes. are the signs and symbols that create meaning (fonts, colours, images). Conventions. are the accepted way of presenting certain elements (names, dates, credits). Conventions of a Television . Commercial. When creating your . commercial, . there are lots of things that you need to consider and make choices about:. Form:. Narrative or Direct Address.. Style:. Humourous, Dramatic, Parodic (i.e. a parody of something else).. Introduction to American Film, JC Clapp, North Seattle College. Overall Style & Characteristics. Songs sung . by the characters . to . advance the plot or develop the . film's characters or themes.. Japanese horror (. J-Horror. ) tends to focus on psychological horror and tension building, particularly involving ghosts and poltergeists. Many contain themes of folk religion, such as:. Possession and exorcism. By Eoin Kenny. What are codes and conventions. These are rules that media organisations must follow when making factual programmes.. Visual codes, for example, how the presenter looks, this will include that they must have a suit, shaved and neat haircut. They must have good communications skills, knowledge of the topic being reported and have a string sense of professional ethics..