(Please note: small glitch at start is due to a YouTube error and not the group)
Thursday 28 March 2013
Chosen idea for my Groups Horror Movie/Trailer
The main character who is called Chad is a popular kid in a local college, who has a best mate called Jonesy. Chad cannot do anything without having support from Jonesy, however Jonesy sometimes prevents Chad from being successful with Girls, because of the way he looks. Chad is out there looking for the perfect Girl to take back to his house for the night as he has been waiting for this moment for ages, however there is a problem unfortunately for the girl, as something will go wrong! Chad takes this girl back to his house where they encounter some weird situations. Jonesy turns up to Chads house and puts Chad into an awkward situation where does he let him in or does he tell him to go away. He lets Jonesy in and at a point Jonesy discovers a tall black figure and at this point you know something is going to go wrong. This is when Jonesy goes missing and the girl gets tortured. All along Chad and this tall black figure have been planning this situation!
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Tuesday 19 March 2013
Wednesday 6 March 2013
Tuesday 5 March 2013
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Original Questionnaire
1. Are you Male or Female?
2. What age are you?
(12-17) (18-24) (25-39) (40+)
3. What horror film have you watched the most?
4. Are you interested in and watch horror films?
5. if you watch horror films, how many do you watch within a month?
(1) (2) (3) (4+)
6. What is the horror film you have watched the most and enjoyed?
7. Do you ever go to the cinema to watch a new film?
8. What is it about the film that makes you want to pay the fee and watch it?
(Trailers) (Posters/Advertising) (Directors/Actors) Previous films in the series)
9. What is it about horror films that attract you to watch it?
10. Does the marketing process (advertising, branding and promotion) influence you to watch movies?
11. What is your all-time favorite horror movie?
12. When you realise your favorite actors are starring in the movie, do you get influenced to just watch it?
These are the questions that I asked my audience to try and find out really what type of movies they like/watch and what persuades them to watch a movie. From asking these questions I can then begin to plan what I can create to make the audience happy and satisfied. The feedback that I will receive will be from a series of age groups so therefore I can discover how different ages view particular types of Horror films.
2. What age are you?
(12-17) (18-24) (25-39) (40+)
3. What horror film have you watched the most?
4. Are you interested in and watch horror films?
5. if you watch horror films, how many do you watch within a month?
(1) (2) (3) (4+)
6. What is the horror film you have watched the most and enjoyed?
7. Do you ever go to the cinema to watch a new film?
8. What is it about the film that makes you want to pay the fee and watch it?
(Trailers) (Posters/Advertising) (Directors/Actors) Previous films in the series)
9. What is it about horror films that attract you to watch it?
10. Does the marketing process (advertising, branding and promotion) influence you to watch movies?
11. What is your all-time favorite horror movie?
12. When you realise your favorite actors are starring in the movie, do you get influenced to just watch it?
These are the questions that I asked my audience to try and find out really what type of movies they like/watch and what persuades them to watch a movie. From asking these questions I can then begin to plan what I can create to make the audience happy and satisfied. The feedback that I will receive will be from a series of age groups so therefore I can discover how different ages view particular types of Horror films.
Sunday 24 February 2013
Monday 11 February 2013
Wednesday 16 January 2013
Horror and the Representation of Women
In this essay I am going to be talking about the representation of
women in horror films. I will be writing about how they are treated and act in
horror films and whether these actions are conventional in horror films. I am
going to be writing about the way they are represented as this will help give a
better understanding to how audiences view horror films, and how they view
women in these films. This information about the women in horror films will
help the audience understand the female character roles more and have an
understanding of why they are treated the way they are.
I feel that both theories are relative to horror films and are understandable when watching a horror film, they both change the way the audience view the film and explain the causes of what makes them act and think in this way. I also feel that both Mulvey and Clover give a good understanding of the representation of women in horror films, and they both explain that it is mainly that the female is always the victim of the attack as they are seen as an object and les s important and are also the victim of a sexual attack as the weapon they are being targeted by is a phallic symbol. From researching both of these theories I agree with Clover, in the way that she represents the way that women are treated in horror films as she gives good reasons.
The
‘Male Gaze’ is what Laura Mulvey’s theory relates to the most, and this
features in all Horror films, it is easily recognised once you understand the
theory. Many theorists (especially Laura Mulvey) have suggested that commercial
cinema put the audience into the position of an ‘appraising heterosexual male’
by adopting camera techniques which present women as objects to be looked at
and men as subjects who do the looking. In these four horror films I have
watched all relate to Laura Mulvey’s theory as they all contain the ‘Male
Gaze’. The techniques that are used in creating the male gaze in these films
are point of view shots and reaction shots this helps make the male character
the subject, a good example for this mike Meyers in the film Halloween, these
shots are used a lot on him. The use of long shots, often show the male point
of view of the female this encourages the audience to relate to her as an
object, this creates the intimidation of the female characters. Mulvey argues
that mainstream film is part of the sexist ‘regime’ of viewing which denies
women subjectivity and encourages culture to view women as objects for male
pleasure. This theory is what happens in all horror films as the female
characters are always targeted by the
males, to indicate the sexual pleasure the male can inflict on the females,
this is the way that the audience see horror films now.
Both
of these theories show 2 different ways that females are viewed in Horror
films, as Clover talks about how the audience indentifies the female character
and how they act as being the ‘Final Girl’ being the last person to survive and
take on the killer, she also talks about how the attack is normally related in
a sexual attack as the weapon that is being used represents a phallic symbol of
a male. Whereas, Mulvey talks all about the ‘Male Gaze’ this is basically
different uses of camera that have been used to show different aspects in the
way females are being viewed in horror films, she basically talks about using
different shots to make the audience view her as being an object and less
important making her the innocent and the victim of the attack.
Jeremy
Tunstall (The media in Britain 1983) looked at a wide range of the existing
research that had been carried out on gender representation in the media. He
argues that overall , the existing research found that representation of women
in the media emphasised women’s domestic, sexual, consumer and marital
activities to the exclusion of all else. Women are depicted as by housewives,
as contended mothers, as eager consumers and as sex objects.
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