Conventions of a Horror Genre.

Conventions of a Horror genre.

• Young/teenage characters.
• Set in rural settings e.g, farms, countryside.
• Clear binary oppositions e.g. good v evil.
• Old, cheap houses with a basement in the middle of nowhere.
• Dark rooms and chase scenes between the antagonist and protagonist.
• Dominant representation of gender: male-villain, female-victim.
• Use of hand held camera: audience identification/realism.
• Possessed children or children with possessed imaginary friends.
• Predictable narrative content, follows format.
• Diegetic sounds e.g screams.
• Non diegetic sounds e.g creepy, music that that builds tension and suspense.
• Extensive use of close up, long shots, point of view shots.
• Low key lighting, use of CGI and FX.