Setting
- Small communities or isolated places. Urban enviroments, dark streets and narrow alleyways. Large cities or run down ghost towns. Anything that connotes isolation or being alone.
- Often sometimes places with “dark” history, like abandoned houses, hotels and insane asylums.
- Locations for any good horror genre film could be: lakes, roads, highways, countryside, barns, farms, dark woods etc.
Technical Codes
- Camerawork is very expressive and not natural high and low angles can connote fear and nightmares.
- Disturbing sounds are very important in a horror movie. Ambient diegetic sounds like footsteps and non-diegetic sounds (like a heartbeat).
- Types of shots used like ECU on a certain victim’s face can help the audience identification with horror and fear, and also to exclude any threats (if we can’t see it, then its more terrifying).
- Editing can create unsettling tension and suspense. If the editing hasn’t been placed up in a while then you know that something very bad is about to jump out and scare you.
Themes
- Good versus Evil
- Depression
- Religion
- Childhood issues
- Revenge
- Supernatural
- Beyond death
- Science gone bad
- Zombie apocalypse
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- Nightmares
- Madness
- Insanity
- Lust
- “Self-consciousness”
- Envy
- Suicide
I also found this information on slideshare, this is the link to the page - http://www.slideshare.net/marine18/horror-genre-conventions
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