Selecting Genre: Research

Selecting a Genre

After thinking over many genres of movies, I have shortened it to a genre that I have lots of interest in Horror. Horror has many different aspects which I will be researching and going over in this blog post.

Horror

What Makes A Great Horror Movie? - David F. Sandberg By Film Courage

In this video I found out about the many things Horror movies need to be considered a "great" horror movie. But I will break it down into two main things:

Timing

With the timing it is all about the suspense you are giving your audience. You could always just make a random loud noise and that could scare them. But if the audience knows that something bad is going to happen but doesn't know when it adds onto the "scariness" of the movie. So, when that jump scare is finally delivered it leaves the audience to feel genuine fear more than a random loud noise could. Also, the way you time the jump scares could move how your audience feels about the monster/killer if you start off strong with a sudden jump out, it could lead to the audience expecting the monster/killer to come out of nowhere. 

Pacing

In horror style movies the pacing plays a huge role especially when it comes to introducing the killer/monster and creating a lasting impression on the audience. For horror as the movies continues to go on the situation the character is in becomes increasingly worse. For example, this clip:

The Ritual (2017) / Starting Scene / Robert Killed By Burglar's Posted by MoviesDestination

This is a scene from the 2017 movie called The Ritual. At first it starts off slow by two friends going to buy some drinks. In the clip you can see the light flicker and in most horror movies this indicates something bad is about to happen. Then the character face drops making the audience think well what happened, this is quickly followed by a pan down allowing us to see the injured woman. Then it is followed up by robbers suddenly breaking into the store and starts to try and rob one of them. At first the audience thinks that Robert will just handover the wallet and everything will be okay, we see him deliver this expectation and give over the wallet. However, they then tell him to take off his ring, but he doesn't, he tries to talk out of giving up his ring but, this leads to his death. This is a great example on why pacing matters because no one would have expected a simple stop into the beer shop to end with death.