HORROR RESEARCH Wells research and Cohen's Moral panic

WELLS (2000)

Wells conducted a study using 12 participants which he put in to categories:

• 16-25
• 26-40
• 41-55
• 56-80

Wells asked the participants questions about the first and last horror movies that they watched in order to evaluate how each age group felt about horror.

Findings/conclusions:

Those in the 56-80 years (1920-1944) category had an interest in horror films when they were younger. Due to events such as World War 2 these people found real life events more frightening htan horror films. Participants in the 41-55 years (1945-1959) category thought that films such as psycho were frightening and that horror films such as the exorcist were too violent.

In the 26-40 years (1960-1974) the participants had a slow decline of interest in horror. They found horror films to be predictable and relying too much on certain conventions. 16-25 years (1975-1984) Enjoyed blood and gore. They were interested in the SFX side of film and favoured certain directors and actors/actresses. 

COHEN'S MORAL PANIC

Moral panics are described as an even, person or group that appears as a threat to the law, morals, and values. Cohen stated that the media plays a vital role in causing moral panic.

Horror research - Media Theories

PRELIM-final clip

PRELIM-Directors Commentary

PRELIM construction (editing and filming quipiment)

Here is two time-lapse videos of me and my group editing our prelim clip. In one of the videos I am drawing the story board whilst my group are putting together some of our clips. In the second video we are all contributing to the editing process. We used adobe premiere to edit our clip as this is the software that we'll be using to edit our final project so using premiere has been helpful for my group.

When recording my group used a Canon camera. We also used phone torches in order to give the impression of a spotlight to replicate the original clip better. We used our schools media studio and their portable lights in order to create a good artificial lighting.

PRELIM: Shooting Schedule

This is the shooting schedule of the days and times that me and my group used when filming our Prelim clip of 'Lights out'

Horror PRELIM planning (storyboards)

These are the storyboards that I drew, scanned, and annotated as part of my prelim research. The storyboard was created whilst watching the original 'lights out' film clip that it is based on.

Horrorn PRELIM planning (clip analysis)

Clover's Final Girl theory

Barbara Creed's Monstrous Feminine theory

This is an emaze that I've made to explain the Monstrous feminine theory and how it is demonstrated in the film 'Carrie'

Horror conventions (research)

Aristotle's Theory

Aristotle's theory suggests that there is three parts to every narrative: the beginning, middle and end. Aristotle said "The most important element is the plot, the ordering of incidents."