Audience Theories

Mulvey's Male Gaze

Laura Mulvey- Visual Pleasure Narrative Cinema (1975) 

Using the theories of Freud and Locan, Mulvey suggests that the way women are viewed in cinema is “unequal”. 

 The camera necessarily presents women as “sexualised” for the pleasure of men .

Voyeurism: The compulsion to seek sexual gratification  by secretly looking as sexual objects or acts; the actions of a peeping tom. 

For Example: James Bond 007 

Levi-Strauss' Binary Opposition

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Todorov's Narrative Theory

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Propps Character Theory/Aristotle/ StanleyCohen/Paul Wells

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How have vampires developed since Nosferatu?

Horror Through Time

Camera Angles and Propps Character Theory

Camera Angles and Propp's Character Theory

Key Words

Objective Treatment: The objective point of view involves  treating the viewer as an observer

Subjective Treatment:The subjective point of view is when the viewer is treat as a participant

How are camera effects used to create add meaning in the horror genre?

Camera effects are used in various ways through out many styles of Horror films , to enhance the affect of the Horror film on the audience for example:

• Close Up- Importance of an object 
• Long Shot-Describing a location
• Mid Shot- Mainly of characters or beast 

There is usually a visual pattern within similar styles of horror film, however the visual pattern is more universal within the trailers. For example within the Devil Trailer.

The main visual patterns that are usually followed within a trailer are quite similar, for example this trailer follows some of the patterns:

• Green Screen
• Names of companies "The night chronicles"
• Establishing shots,upside down (distortion)
• Mid shots of characters 
• Daunting music builds up with more momentum
• Birds eye shot on the lift
• Cutting shots of scenes, a disturbing sound of a beep
• Rule of three characters and lift 
• Sound of screaming, the bell of the lift constantly, increasing in dynamic, when cutting to scenes 
• A glimpse of the villain/ evil character, with daunting music, to end the trailer
• Almost silence with accompanying soft music, then ending credits

Depicting Horror

A2 Media Depicting horror from A Akena

Introduction

Welcome to "Into The Eyes of The Beast", this is the blog I will be posting my journey through my new A2 media unit of Horror. Within this unit I look forward to looking into the Horror theory and uncovering the secrets of thrill and why we continue to watch films, that make us think twice about sleeping in the dark. What makes horror so addictive? Personally Horror doesn't phase me into being constantly daunted of certain surroundings, however I wonder if the most scary and disturbing films actually expose ones dark and twisted fantasy or an experience. I'm also interested in comparing Horror films from as far as the 19th Century up to the 21st Century, and discovering things like:

• What time period was the Horror industry seen as most successful?
• Have the conventions of a horror film improved greatly or have stayed relatively the same throughout the years?

 I will enjoy getting an insight into what is behind creating a successful horror film, especially in an industry where the synopsis of the horror films tends to be similar to others that have been previously made. This will hopefully give my group and I an original outlook into creating our own horror trailer as well as the film poster; from which I will be happy to use my skills that I have gained from previous AS units and tasks.