Write an evaluation of the imagery you would use in a 30 minute horror film.

If I was to create a 30minute horror film I would use a lot of vulgar imagery to create the full effect of horror and ensure that my audience was scared. The imagery in my horror film would be specifically for Sadists. I would want them to identify with the killer in every possible way, ensuring that there was a lot of explicit imagery throughout the film. I was base my horror film imagery as if I was making my film in the 1960s – 1990s as I am aware that during this time period imagery in horror films were explicit and the horror film watches actually saw the killing along with all the violence and blood. My film would be for a desensitised audience and I would ensure that everything they saw looked believable and realistic. I would ensure that the film was as less predictable as possible as well as wanting my audience to be as scared as much as possible, as I feel this would engage them more as they are watching. I would ensure all my costuming, mise-en-scene and camera work was used to the best of its ability, creating frightening camera shots, such as extreme close ups, high and low angle shots and point of view shots. The mise-en-scene would be bloodcurdling to make sure my audience were unaware of what could happen and where it may happen. Along with this my costuming and make-up would be petrifying. The use or blood and gore would excel in this department to make a disfigured and disgusting image or person to look at during the film. I feel by doing these things I would create an element of fear within my horror film along with keeping my sadist audience engaged throughout the film.

How has the role of women changed in Media over the years

In Dracular 1931 the role of women was viewed as the madona. An innocent, helpless, fragile women being prayed upon by a monterous vampire man. In the film, the woman was dressed in white, in which represents innocence and she was also well groomed. This shows that women were seen to be be protected by men and also made them look helpless due to their image and speech. The actress in Dracula is alone, sleeping as Dracula enters her roomand this automatically puts her in a weaker position as no one is around to save her, therefore if anything bad happened she would have suffer alone and unprotected.

However, in 28days later(2002) the role of women has been largly subverted. Selena is not viewed as the madona or as a whore, instead she is viewed as a fighter full of action. She takes control, fights and is extremely dominant. She also doesnt hesitate to tell her male companions what is on her mind or give them orders and direction when necessary. Along with this she is not sexualised, hence therefore subverting the role of women as well as their representations in horror films. Selena is the strongest character in 28 days later which in itself shows women in a positive light as she is one of the main characters plus she is the strongest and knows exactly what to do and when to do it. the film itself portrays women in a positive way and shows there equality to men.

Normally in horror films women are seen as less equal and more vunerable to men but there are some hooror films which do not conform to the stereotypes of women and men at all but they do show there equality. An example of a horror film that does this is every SAW. In SAW all men and women are tortured equally. They all suffer the same pain and suffering throughout the film, each completing a different task of torture. In addition to this both men and women are sweaty and messy, some women are sexulised in the films but the majority are not.

Year 13 - 5 scariest parts of horror films seen

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