Looking at the other overview vodcasts from the class:
- Poppy, Kate and Millie
Early influential examples which become stereotypes are called architypes this is shown in Psycho - the architype of a scream queen and editing of the killings.
The texas chainsaw massacre are influential movies shown other directors you can make movies for very little money.
Black Christmas very influential on screen. They shrunk location costs by filming it all in one house.
Black xmas, Psy, TCM early examples of films that have been re-made.
Halloween (John Carpenter) was influenced by Black Xmas with the killers POV shot. In effect the audience becomes the killer. Peeping Tom has the same thing, very explicitly using that idea, the audience is positioned as the killer.
These are different to psycho but are tame to what we have today.
Big studios that had not payed attention to slashers realised there was money in the business after Halloween. Very quickly got immitators looking to use the same basic formula.
The final girl concept...in Halloween
Signified by:
Clothes
personality
Audio
Academic
Slasher films:
Non diegetic music
Music can make you sub-consciousley hold your breath form long notes, fast notes speed up your heartbeat it has a physical effect as well as a psychological.
- Tilly, Hannah and James
Prototype slashers feature serial killers, narrative appeal comes from 'Who done it?'
High leve;s of blood and gore as well as explicit nudity drugs use and other sensational elements are used to attract an audience.
TCM-marketing idea was that it was based on true events.
Hybrid genres are genres mixed together several different genres in one e.g. Zom-rom-com.
A nightmare on elm street (wes craven)
Post modern slahser first one.
Self referential
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Commutation testis used by taking out one thing from a scene removing the music.
In general each film is different but the typical audience for a slasher audience is 15-24. Primary target audience is 15-24 now if your movie is BBFC(British board of film councillation) rated the audience can know what will be shown. 25-34 known as mature youth. Point is typically your core audience will be 15-24 especially if you have intertextual refferences to films it can be mature youth.
Secondary target audience goes two ways, younger and older. Some secondary appeal to a 35 plus audience but its teenagers into their early twenties form almost all of the cinema going audience as you go up the numbers go down very steeply inded. the characters and language is appropriate for a teen audience. Probably half of slasher movies have a sheriff in them. Because the adult authority figures are useless.
Halloween became the most profitable movie ever made at the time. An exception to Todorov because the disequilibrium is maintained as halloween 2 picks straight up form number 1.
Daves Speech....
In the 50's and 60's most horror was either gothic or creature features (monsters. Combination between universal creature features and Hammer Horror with gothic elements. With the HH movies which were dominant worldwide in the 60's. The main characters were mature, upper class adults. Protagonists were working on middle class in films like LHONTL and TCM. Hammer Horror used a castle a lot in their movies, they were quite theatrical where as LHOTL were ultra realistic ion their design. Hammer is very stagey however the early slasher movies (72/74) halloween created a whole series of immitators such as peeping tom which was seen as sick and disgusting so producers wouldn't dare making films like this. Hammer looked rediculous alongside these modern contemporary movies and it wrecked the company. The idea of scream queens were reffered to hammer movies - busty blondes.
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- Dec, Dom and Ben
Commutation testis used by taking out one thing from a scene removing the music.
In general each film is different but the typical audience for a slasher audience is 15-24. Primary target audience is 15-24 now if your movie is BBFC(British board of film councillation) rated the audience can know what will be shown. 25-34 known as mature youth. Point is typically your core audience will be 15-24 especially if you have intertextual refferences to films it can be mature youth.
Secondary target audience goes two ways, younger and older. Some secondary appeal to a 35 plus audience but its teenagers into their early twenties form almost all of the cinema going audience as you go up the numbers go down very steeply inded. the characters and language is appropriate for a teen audience. Probably half of slasher movies have a sheriff in them. Because the adult authority figures are useless.
Halloween became the most profitable movie ever made at the time. An exception to Todorov because the disequilibrium is maintained as halloween 2 picks straight up form number 1.
Daves Speech....
In the 50's and 60's most horror was either gothic or creature features (monsters. Combination between universal creature features and Hammer Horror with gothic elements. With the HH movies which were dominant worldwide in the 60's. The main characters were mature, upper class adults. Protagonists were working on middle class in films like LHONTL and TCM. Hammer Horror used a castle a lot in their movies, they were quite theatrical where as LHOTL were ultra realistic ion their design. Hammer is very stagey however the early slasher movies (72/74) halloween created a whole series of immitators such as peeping tom which was seen as sick and disgusting so producers wouldn't dare making films like this. Hammer looked rediculous alongside these modern contemporary movies and it wrecked the company. The idea of scream queens were reffered to hammer movies - busty blondes.
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