- Based on research there are two groups to horror films; those who love watching horror films and those who despise watching horror films and do not want to associate with it at all!
- Audiences tend to recognise the presence of the genre horror in films through the codes and conventions. For example:
- From the history of horror films, the following elements were mostly found in horror texts and films:
- Children are also often used in horror films as the mystery of a horror film.
- The children normally don't speak and are used as a more visual horror.
- For instance in the film The Woman in Black, the children are not the main characters but they haunt the Eel Marsh House.
- On the other hand, in many of the current horror films children are used as the main character's son or daughter.
- At the beginning of the film they are perfectly ordinary but throughout the horror film they gradually change.
- In many story lines from horror films there is a final girl alive to confront the killer.
- An example is in The Grudge where the woman is the only one left alive to kill the zombies.
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- A short film is any film that isn't long enough to be considered as a feature film.
- Short films tend to be brief between 5-30 minutes.
- In the Hollywood studios from the 1930s-1950s a short film was a cartoon which was approximately 6-7 minutes.
- In Britain, Channel 4 was the main area in which short films were featured.
- Short films tend to involve cliffhangers at the end or a montage of time.
- However the issue with short films is that very few would want to pay to see a short film.
- Therefore there is a very slim chance of making profit out of it.
Film making has become has become so successful in the media industry and has provided film makers the opportunity to practice more complex technology and stories to produce films over the years. For example currently film makers could alter the features of characters shot in films using a wide variety of new advanced technology like motion picture markers, which film producers believed to be impossible:
Films were introduced in 1872 when a man named Muybridge decided to experiment on capturing moving images. Muybridge placed 12 camera on a race horse track, once the horse ran across the track, it's legs broke the threads on the cameras to operate the cameras in a sequence. He was then able to project these images creating a motion photography!
