Few ideas to throw around...

In our most recent media lesson the four of us played with a few ideas for narratives for our teaser trailer.
John Hartley believed that "genre are agents of idealogical closure - they limit the meaning/potential of a given text" - (O'Sullican et al. 1994,128).
As a reflection of this, I decided to do some research into the horror genre and its' codes and conventions. I suggest that we make sure we continue to return to these to make sure our teaser trailer clearly portrays the genre we have chosen!

1. A fear of death is always present in a horror film
2. Binary oppositions of good versus evil
3. Fear created in a horror film is based on our most deep, instintive fears e.g. paranoia that someone is always watching you, fear of the unknown, vunerability etc.
4. A collapse of moral order
5. May include violence/gore
6. May explore taboo subjects such as the corruption of children and innocence
7. Continue to play on the minds of the viewers even after watching the film
8. Plays on the dread/suspense the audience feels as watching

So there you have it (: also, the four of us came up with a few ideas for narratives so will put them up here too. They are very vague so far and so we will continue this week to develop these ideas:

1. Plot 1 - a camping/holiday trip going wrong
2. Plot 2 - clown based horror
3. Plot 3 - sleepover based horror
4. Plot 4 - a news bulletin on a monster based pandemic
5. Plot 5 - friendships that are not as they appear

Still, other ideas may also come to us as we continue to discuss in class so watch this space!

Stef