A study of most films will include consideration of genre.
Here is a slideshow to remind you about how to study genre:
So genre is a comparative study:
- In what ways does a given film follow the generic conventions of horror
- how is it different and…
- …can we account for those differences.
Task for snow days
Watch this short horror film from Bloody Cuts: (In the dark if you can…)
On page two of the document identify features of this film which you think are conventional of the horror genre. Create a new page in your reflective journal called Horror. Post the film and your analysis.
This will serve as a useful blueprint and structure (Altman) against which to test our two films, Nosferatu and Let The Right One In. We will ask ourselves the questions:
- In what ways do our films follow the generic conventions of horror
- how are they different and…
- …can we account for those differences.
Remember you should also have watched the two films on the previous blog post!