Teen horrors have conventions just like all media products, Coventions are the usual ways of doing something. Conventions are usually used to keep withing a genre and to make a product successful.
My film fits into the conventions for a teen horror because:
- Teenagers as the main characters
- Relationship involved
- College student
- Darkness
- Mysterious
The similarities between my film and sorority row is that they both have girls as the main charcaters, the difference is that in sorority row their are a group of girls as the main characters whereas my film has only one girl. Another similarity is that a relationship is featured in both of the films, the relationship in both films is between a girl and boy, In my film the couple are together whereas in Sorority row the couple have broken up. There is a car scene within both of the films and in both films it is dramatic and involves quite a bit of the plot within the film. Both films use darkness to make the film more scary and to have a more dramatic effect on the story line. In sorority row a party is the opening sequence and teen music is used this is the same for my film. Horror music and sound effects are used in Sorority row to build suspense, if i was creating the rest of my film this is what i would include to do the same effect.
The similiarities between my film and Jennifers body is that like sorority row the main characters are girls, in Jennifers there are two girls. Also like Sorority row a relationship is featured, in Jennifers body the relationship is between two bestfriends and another between a girlfriend and boyfriend, in my film a relationship between a girlfriend and boyfriend is featured. A similarity between Jennifers body and my film is that the two films have a sense of mystery, they both have questions that the audience are thinking about the film e.g. why is this happening? what happened before? Another similarity between the Jennifers body and my film is that flashbacks are used to provide the audience with more information. The difference between them is that in Jennifers body it shows the ending of them film then goes back in time to what happened previous whereas in my film the flashback just gives information to help enable the story line.
Friday, 22 October 2010
Blog 6 - Appealing to the Target Audience
My film is targeted at 15-21 year old's. My film appeals to the target audience because the main characters are teenagers therefore the audience can relate to the characters as they may be similar to them. Also the characters go through different problems in the film including a relationship between girlfriend and boyfriend which the audience could relate to or even sympathise as they may be going through a similar situation.
The type of people that would be appealed my film would be 15-21 year old girls. I think girls would enjoy my film more because the main character in the film is a girl and it features a relationship which boys may not be interested in as it is too sentimental. Boys prefer more gory films as they are more action packed. Depending on the budget and the hype around my film it depends on the type of people that would watch my film. If there is a lot of hype and a high budget then Mainstreamers would go and watch my film as they don't want to stand out they want go with what everyone else does however if the film was low key then individualists would be the type of people that would watch my film because not many people would no about it so its different. I think my film would be watched my mainstreamers because the story line is not very original. Socio-economic classification is not very relevant to the teen horror genre as many of the teen don't have jobs they are students.
The type of people that would be appealed my film would be 15-21 year old girls. I think girls would enjoy my film more because the main character in the film is a girl and it features a relationship which boys may not be interested in as it is too sentimental. Boys prefer more gory films as they are more action packed. Depending on the budget and the hype around my film it depends on the type of people that would watch my film. If there is a lot of hype and a high budget then Mainstreamers would go and watch my film as they don't want to stand out they want go with what everyone else does however if the film was low key then individualists would be the type of people that would watch my film because not many people would no about it so its different. I think my film would be watched my mainstreamers because the story line is not very original. Socio-economic classification is not very relevant to the teen horror genre as many of the teen don't have jobs they are students.
Monday, 4 October 2010
Blog 5 - Evidence of Wider Reading
Teen horrors all use the same conventions, they mainly include:
- characters at the same age of the target audience
- relationship between a girlfriend and boyfriend
- some scenes set in a high school or isolated areas
- involve different groups of people e.g. geeky, jocks
- stereotypes
This is a summary of the teen horror genre that i found off a movie review website:
'Horror films where the body count is skewed toward the 15-19 year old range, portrayed by people who haven't been 15 in a loooong time. Sex, drugs, and alcohol also tend to get you killed frequently' - movieretriever.com
Steven Cassey Murray, A horror movie editor from belle online picked out some of the positive points that sorority row had. This included the use of comedy and how it stuck to the main story plot throughout the film. Some of the negative points were that it included negative female stereotypes and that the film was not original.
The same horror movie editor from belle online wrote a review about Jennifers body and picked out positive points. The positve points were that like sorority row included humour and that Jennifers bodys dialougue was something new and original. This horror movie editor ovbiously enjoyed Jennifers body much more than Sorority row as there were no negative points about Jennifers body.
From screenrant.com was a review of Jennifers body which included a negative point of the film and that was that it was not really that scary.
When creating my script i will try to include the positve points that the two films included so i will have to have a original story line, create the sense of fear (to make it scary) and to include some humour.
- characters at the same age of the target audience
- relationship between a girlfriend and boyfriend
- some scenes set in a high school or isolated areas
- involve different groups of people e.g. geeky, jocks
- stereotypes
This is a summary of the teen horror genre that i found off a movie review website:
'Horror films where the body count is skewed toward the 15-19 year old range, portrayed by people who haven't been 15 in a loooong time. Sex, drugs, and alcohol also tend to get you killed frequently' - movieretriever.com
Steven Cassey Murray, A horror movie editor from belle online picked out some of the positive points that sorority row had. This included the use of comedy and how it stuck to the main story plot throughout the film. Some of the negative points were that it included negative female stereotypes and that the film was not original.
The same horror movie editor from belle online wrote a review about Jennifers body and picked out positive points. The positve points were that like sorority row included humour and that Jennifers bodys dialougue was something new and original. This horror movie editor ovbiously enjoyed Jennifers body much more than Sorority row as there were no negative points about Jennifers body.
From screenrant.com was a review of Jennifers body which included a negative point of the film and that was that it was not really that scary.
When creating my script i will try to include the positve points that the two films included so i will have to have a original story line, create the sense of fear (to make it scary) and to include some humour.
Monday, 27 September 2010
Blog 4 - Analysis of Opening Sequences
I watched the opening sequences of two teen horror movies, Jennifers body and Sorority row. The two films have some similarities as being teen horror they are trying to apply to the same audience. The lead roles of the two films are played by women which are similar ages, either at high school/college. In the two films relationships are shown, both films have friendships included. The two films use informal language to connect with the audience as they use slang. The two films opening both include creepy music to build suspense also they both start with a dark house.
However the two films have differences they use different techniques to build suspense in Soroity row lighting and music is used and in Jennifers body darkness and flash back is used. The two set ups of the films are different in Sorority row you are watching the event unfold whereas in Jennifers body the event has already happened and you are being retold the story by one of the characters using a flashback. In Jennifers body there is boyfriend and girlfriend relationship, Soroity row has an ex-boyfriend and girlfriend relationship.
However the two films have differences they use different techniques to build suspense in Soroity row lighting and music is used and in Jennifers body darkness and flash back is used. The two set ups of the films are different in Sorority row you are watching the event unfold whereas in Jennifers body the event has already happened and you are being retold the story by one of the characters using a flashback. In Jennifers body there is boyfriend and girlfriend relationship, Soroity row has an ex-boyfriend and girlfriend relationship.
Blog 3 - Institutional Contexts
Jennifers body was part created by the company Fox Atomic which is a production label from 20th century fox. 20th century fox is a well known production label therefore allows there films to have large budgets. Other films produced by this label are other teen and horror films.
Sorority row was part created by Summit entertainment, Summit entertainment is respnsible for releasing twilight and since then has made many succesful films, the other films they have produced have been quite dark. Summit entertainments success enables them to have large budgets for their films.
Jennifers body and Sorority row were released at similar times, both within the months of september -november, so the dark winter months near halloween. The budget for theses two films were $16,000,000. On the opening weekend in America of Jennifers body it earned $6,868,397 and Sorority row earned $5,059,802. Jennifers body has so far made $32,832,166 and Sorority row has made $27,195,919.
Due to these factors of the two films i have analysed i will have the release date around october time and think about how a large budget would impact my film and how that budget would make it a good teen horror.
Sorority row was part created by Summit entertainment, Summit entertainment is respnsible for releasing twilight and since then has made many succesful films, the other films they have produced have been quite dark. Summit entertainments success enables them to have large budgets for their films.
Jennifers body and Sorority row were released at similar times, both within the months of september -november, so the dark winter months near halloween. The budget for theses two films were $16,000,000. On the opening weekend in America of Jennifers body it earned $6,868,397 and Sorority row earned $5,059,802. Jennifers body has so far made $32,832,166 and Sorority row has made $27,195,919.
Due to these factors of the two films i have analysed i will have the release date around october time and think about how a large budget would impact my film and how that budget would make it a good teen horror.
Blog 2 - Target Audience
Jennifers body and Sorority row have the same target audience as they are both teen horror films. The typical audience for these two films would be mainstreamers, they want to see big produced hollywood movies and as they are teen horros the two films would be aiming at teenagers/young adults from the age of 15-21. When looking at the user ratings from both films, you can clearly identify what age group enjoyed the film more.
Jennifers body had a large amount of votes from males however recieved a low rating, whereas females voted less but gave a higher rating compared to males. The highest rating of the film came from the under 18 category and the 18-29 female category. The majority of vates came from the 18-29 category however the film was rated low.
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| Sorority row - user ratings |
Sorority row recieved most votes from a male audience and like Jennifers body rated the film with a low rating. The majority of the votes for Sorority row came from the 18-29 category however recieved a low rating. The highest percentage came from females aged 45+, but not alot of people from that category voted, this shows that most of them rated the film 5-8, this is the same for the boys category aged under 18, they too gave Sorority row a high rating but few people voted.
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| Jennifers body - user ratings |
Blog 1 - Introduction - Pre-production
The pre production task involves writing a script for the opening sequence of a teen horror movie.
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