1. Assignement 4
Genre Partner Project.
By Kaya Sumbland and Sanel Homer

2. Horror / Thriller
Horror/Thriller are made to scare and horror their viewers as well as adding suspense
and tension as main elements. Creating high levels of anticipation of your worst hidden
fears.
• Alfred Hitchcock shaped horror / thriller with The Lodge, which was a silent
film, established in 1926.
• Also Jack the ripper story, then followed by Blackmail in sound.
• Established to excite viewers with uncertainty and terror.
Expression of Expression of fear
anticipation and tension

3. How has Horror / Thriller changed over time?
1946 2011
Pianist dies, Investigation into
doesn't include a government then
friend in will, takes leads to abandoned
corpse hand and train tunnels beneath
plots revenge and Sidney, story come
stalks. to haunt them.
• Smarter Titles
• Developed special effects
• Enhanced plots
• Better Technology
• More exciting, dramatic
• More of a mind game

4. How has it mixed with other genres?
Crime horror / thriller – Central topics serial killers and murderers
Silence of the Lambs.
Revenge horror thriller – an exploration film, central topics suspense and
rape
I Spit on your grave.

5. For Example…. The old dark house - 1932
Trailer conventions…
• A • Scary
chase. objects ;
skeleton
• Weird / Crazy
People.
• Sound effects
always dramatic
Director – James Whale • Black and white
Distributor – Universal
Pictures • People
•
Released – 1932 randomly
The soft block font
Plot - Seeking shelter from a dying.
pounding rainstorm in wales and
several travellers are admitted to a
gloomy mansion. on the run from
the police, things get worse
and tries to destroy the residence
by setting it on fire.

6. For Example…. The Lost Boys - 1987
Trailer conventions…
• Attractive guy
• Teens
turns Vampire
Director – Joel Schumacher
Distributor – Warner Bros.
Released – 1987
Plot - Two new-in-town brothers
who discover a local gang of • Creepy suspicious guy
• Mysterious things scaring and
motorcycle youths are more • Dark setting creeping up on people.
undead than alive. Older brother • Mellow music; turns
falls in love with the bunch's lone to loads of screams
female - and is gradually becoming
a vampire himself.

7. For Example…. Hollow Man - 2000
Trailer conventions…
• Suspicious • A lot of text to create suspense
Director – Paul Verhoeven
Distributor – Columbia
Pictures
Released – 2000
Plot - Scientist who heads up a
double-secret government team • Scientists; how it happened • Quote said by the weirdo in the
experimenting with turning life-forms
• Piano music; creepy end
invisible.

8. For Example…. House of Wax - 2005
Trailer conventions…
• Stalker • Something Abandoned - Town
Director – Jaume Collet-
Serra
Distributor – Warner Bros.
Released – 2005
Plot – Teenagers stop to a
• The stupid people who go • Killer chase
camp sight, end up getting
mixed up with the wrong people inside or check something out
who turn people into wax • Dramatic fast music

9. For Example…. Final Destination 5 - 2011
Trailer conventions…
• The Warning
• Someone who scares easy
and have a feeling of what will
happen
Director – Steven Quale • Someone dying really
Distributor – Universal horrifically (Usually
Pictures the annoying people)
Released – 2011
Plot – People who escape a • Dramatic fast and loud music
nearly fatal accident then death • Make you jump
come back to haunt them and
kills them all brutally.

10. What have I learnt? How they inspired me..
• The reasons of a • To build up anticipation and excite with
horror/thriller a revealing shock at the end not
showing to much but enough.
• How to create suspense
• How Build up tension
• Typical conventions to
certain types of
horror/thriller
• Technologies improvement
• What angle shots are
affective to use in showing
the best of an emotion.

12. • It tells us a story usually involving conflict and emotions
through actions and dialogue.
• The drama that we know today goes back to the times of
ancient Greece
• The term come from a Greek word meaning ‘action’.
• Drama was established in the 19 th century and was only
performed on holy occasion.

13. The masks helped audience members
identify the emotions onstage. The
mouths were big so it can make the
actors speak more easily, and the facial
expressions were exaggerated so that
those in the cheap seats could still
understand what was going on.
In the days before stories were written
they act out there performances waiting
for those dramatic stories to be written.
But drama would only exist in those
people and their memories.

14. Oskar Schindler is a greedy
German businessman who
becomes unlikely caring in the
middle of the barbaric Nazi reign
when he feels compelled to turn
his factory into a refuge for
Jews. He managed to save about
1100 Jews from being gassed at
the Auschwitz concentration
camp.
Drama Film
Distributed by: Universal pictures
Released on: 30 November 1933
Directed by: Steven Spielberg

15. •Painful
•Surprised
•Dreadful
•Crucial
•Evil

16. A life of a ballerina - Nina. She is
obsessed with dance and the only
thinks about getting the star role in
the next season. There is a
competition with this girl called Lilly
who is very talented and the directors
has noticed her. They are after the
role of the White Swan/Black. There
friendship becomes Strange and Nina
ends up learning about the dark side
from her friend and this dark side
could lead to her damage. Drama/thriller Film
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Released on: December 1st 2010
Distributed by: Fox searchlight pictures

17. the over-the-top
camera angles
•Mysterious
•Unsettling
•compassion
•Mad
•Crazy

18. Film Noir French for black film
It’s a cinematic term to describe Hollywood dramas
Film noir is generally established between the times of 1940 and 1950’s
John Alton created many of Film Noirs iconic images.

19. •Film noir stands for ‘Black Film’
•Film Noir is a cinematic term to describe stylish Hollywood crime
drama.
•It started from the early 1940’s to the late 1950’s
•Film noir was established in 2002 for those teaching or studying
crime fiction, film and graphic art.

20. . In the 1960s and 1970s, there were movies like
Candidate (1962) and Chinatown(1974), which were
influenced by the film noir movies from the 1950s.
•In 2000’s also movies began to be like film noir
because they were inspired by them.
Film noir has been mixed with other genre
such as detective-mystery to get more
interest and success.

21. They expect:
•Evil
•Guilt
•Depression
•Loneliness
•Harshness •In the middle of the Gulf War,
soldiers are kidnapped and
brainwashed for evil purposes.
They are more centre on:
• field camera work
•Lighting Directed by: Jonathan Demme
•Deep focus Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Released on: July 30th 2004

22. Directed by: Roman Polanski
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Released on: June 20th 1974
•Good tone
•Lighting
•Visual style
•Arguing
•Depression
•Frightening
A private detective investigating an adultery •Thrilling
case fall on to a scheme of murder that has
something to do with water.
Thriller Film

23. What have we learnt?
• Conventions are a main part of
separating different genres.
• How many different movies have
developed over time.
• How movies from this generation
are inspired by old movies.