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Terrified• This OTS was successful as the makers of the film used the distorted,
non-diegetic sound at the start of the sequence.
• This was done to make the audience feel uncomfortable and scared.This follows the aim of horror films: to frighten its audience.
• Another technique they used was the voice over of laughter when the camera is setting the scene. The laugh creates a sense of fear to the audience as they feel something bad is happening off screen.
• This raises the narrative enigma: what is happening that we cannot see?
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• In the title sequence, the background behind the text is black. The colour black is a generic convention of the horror genre as it signifies danger or death.
• Because the makers used black after the audience has witnessed a murder makes them more unnerving because the audience have the initial shock of a murder at the start of the film.
Summary• To summarise the horror genre:
• It contains many sub-genres which has sub-genres within them so there’s a big variety of types of horror films.
• The intentions of horror films is to scare the audience by playing with their fears and making them feel uncomfortable.
• Horror films would accomplish this by using weapons, blood, murder, using red and black with low key lighting to take the viewers out of their comfort zone.
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