Conducting Genre Research, Horror.

I gathered the research for the Iconography of Horror movies I have presented this research as images in a collage, including the typical aspects of horrors.
Below is the collage made on Photovisi (All images are from google and youtube)

This collage contains the stereotypical things that people expect to see in horrors such as blood, knives and weapons. The villains in horrors always have either a mask on or media make up, this is to try and create the scary vibe by disguising there identity. I have also included common horror film scenes for example the big haunted house and being in the shower. All of these images are dark and eery. This represents the basic expectations of a horror film.

I also researched into the certificate rating on horror movies and the reasons behind the ratings.                                                                                               All movies have certificate ratings on and when you look at horror movies they
normally range between 15 and 18, this will be because of the contents of the movie have bad language, violent scenes, sex scenes and horror scenes these things are what cause the films to fall under the category of 18 certificate ratings.
Horror films were very hard to pass as an 18 certificate rating in the past because violence was a problematic situation and caused a lot of moral panic, in order for the film to get the rating certificate and be able to be shown in cinema's they would have to remove the scenes that are inappropriate although these scenes will be shown in uncut video versions. Now days a lot more is accepted in movies, for example until recently actual sex acts were not allowed in any 18 certificate rating movies.
An example could be Cannibal Holocaust this movie had to be cut by 5.44 minutes because of sexual violent scenes and animal cruelty.

Movies such as the saw series are all 18 ratings, this will because of all the blood, gore and violence. Movies like this need to have the ratings because the contents is not suitable for anyone under that age, since saw contains bad language and is filled with loads of different violent ways of killing people. You can also see from movies like this that entertainment has changed so much over the years because the content of saw would not have been accepted even as a 18 certificate rating movie where as over the years they have had to be more lenient and accept more into 18 rating movies because it is what the audience now want to see and they want.

A group member Georgia created a prezi presenting the conventions of horror film and narrative, including narrative theorists. Embedded below.

Group members Georgia and Faye created a video to present the typical conventions of a horror movie. (youtube clip embedded below)

History of the horror genre on Dipity.

We will be using all this information we have collected to help us produce a perfect horror movie opening, we wanted to find out what typical conventions we should use in a horror movie and which ones not to use. This information will also help us create something that will appeal to our target audience, helping us know what conventions are typical in popular horror movies now days, also helping us avoid the typical conventions used in historical horror movies.