Question 1

Sound: 
Some of the sounds that I had used are very sinister. I used interference sounds when the camera started breaking up. I also included a scream which I had edited in later on. At the end of the scene there was a monstrous growl or zombie noise that I had put in. I think this Just gave it that bit more of a horror film effect.

Lighting; 
The lighting that is used is normal artificial lighting at the start of the opening sequence and then through out when it goes blank and then turns back on it is meant to look as though it is in night vision in which i then made the lighting dimmer and look as though it is night time.

Location: 

The location that I have decided will be a house, I came to this conclusion because I feel it looks more realistic. For example when I looked at existing films such as paranormal activity and the conjuring they are filmed in a house to make it look more personal. The house I will be filming in is just an ordinary house, the main room that it’s being filmed in is the bedroom; this makes it seem natural and gives the audience a shock when something bad does happen.

The main room is a child’s bedroom, this already gives it that feel that something bad may happen because stereotypically in horror films the child is mainly the one that is the ‘monster’.

Narrative: All horror films can apply Propp’s theory to the narrative. We see the ‘villain’ and the ‘hero’ also the ‘victim’. Usually the ‘hero’ will spend the film fighting against the evil ‘villain’ and may win. However recently a lot of films such as ‘paranormal activity’ films and ‘sinister’ the ‘hero’ ends up dying. The audience will usually find themselves relating to the ‘hero’.

Todorov’s trinity theory can also be applied to most horror movies as we see the ‘set-up’ that shows us the characters and the scene the film is set. We then see the ‘disruption’ where something occurs that leads to a string of unpleasant events within the narrative. Then we see a ‘resolution’ this is sometimes the evil of the film being defeated or sometimes not really a resolution at all as the main protagonist will die. Some films even make the audience think it is happy ending but will then turn it around and we see nothing has been resolved like in ‘insidious’. It could also go into further detail of ‘the 5 states’ as we almost always see them try and solve the issue, which sometimes doesn’t work. Also in horror films we usually see ‘multiple strands’ within a ‘non-linear structure’. It will sometimes not only have the strand of fighting evil but could include strands of family issues, or relationships within the action which are usually intertwined and interact throughout the film.

Films of the horror genre also commonly use ‘binary opposites’ to create sides that the audience understand, such as good and evil.