Horror Films Research

                      Horror film research

                              Horror film components

Visual elements: From my research on horror films, some common visual elements in mise-en-scene; settings that are in a cabin or forest at night used to gain a tense fearsome atmosphere and dark areas used to help with jump scares. Props that consist of weapons like chainsaw, knifes, spiritual artifacts, and crosses/bibles. The dark lighting such as low-key lighting used to conceal whoever is hiding in the dark and it helps to create shadows. The color's used such as red can be used to signify a lot of blood is being used, also the usage of black can portray evil nature or lost soul and white could mean that the character is good and pure. In cinematography birds eye view, close up, tracking or panning, tilted angle, low angle, handheld camera shots. In editing match cuts, jump cuts, parallel editing, fade in/out, cross cut.

Auditory elements: In horror films some sounds commonly used are instruments, breathing, footsteps, ghosts, stabbings, 

Characters: In horror films, the common protagonist and antagonist consist of the non believer, hero, hysterical character, villain(killer, slasher, clown, masked characters)

Representation: Common representations in horror films are a chain of unfortunate train of events