Paragraph One= Steve Neal said that 'genre is a repition with an underlying pattern of variations' which meant certain generic features had to be included and repeated which in my case was the use of a creepy location of the woods aswell as hand held camera and restriced narration to cause disorentation and suspense within our trailer.
Paragraph Two= We also used the Kuleshove and collision cutting methods as the pace began slow as the friends head out in the car unaware of the danger before them and once they are in the woods we deliberatly quickened the pace of editing to cause tension and to show that something is not right, keeping the audience on the edge of thier seats.
Paragraph Three= Levi Strauss and Roland Barthes argued that the horror genre like many others used 'binary opostions' in order to show the contrasdt between good and evil in order to force the audience to be constantly questiomning the trailer for example: in my trailer i used light and dark to connote their happiness and carefree attitude in the daytime and the darkness to emphasie their fear and reliance on their senses.
Paragraph Four= This meant the audience also were forced to objectify the female victim from the high angle camera shot down her top in which we can see her breasts slightly after watching other Hitchcock movies which use the male male gaze theory by Laura Mulvey to force us to take a male's viewpoint.
Paragraph Five= The horror trailer was madee much darker in Final Cut Pro using the brightness and contrast menu and also dragger the saturated colours towards the blue in order to create dark, dusky night time atmosphere a generic convention of horror trailers.
Paragraph Seven= I believe my product is successfully fitted to the horror genre using the narrative that Todorov argued was important to the horror genre by following an equilibrium at the beginning then a problem which in our case was the male anti hero playing ajoke on the soon to be female victim [...]
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