Author Archives: Sebastian Castro

As discussed before, narrative for film is described as ‘the coherence/organisation given to a series of facts.’ The human minds needs a narrative to make connections in between allusions and other situations in order to make sense of things.  Creature: By including a creature/supernatural being in the story, you can establish a great way toContinue reading “Narrative for Horror”

David Bordwell describes a narrative as a chain of events occurring in time and space in a cause-effect relationship. Narrative is generally accepted as having two components: the presented story and its telling or narrative process, also referred to as narrative discourse. Story is a collection of depicted events, characters (or agents for some), andContinue reading “Narrative in Film”

Horror is a very popular genre for people across the globe. In fact, in terms of box office revenue, horror is the 6th most popular genre in the world. Even so, being one of the biggest genres doesn’t mean the film-makers are able to escape the common guidelines to target audiences. 2017 marked the firstContinue reading “Audience in Horror”

Audience: The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting. Audience engagement: Films can engage with audiences in different ways that are not visibly seen but rather felt. Since specific audiences watch and prefer specific films, those same films will add stimulants such as codes, conventions, andContinue reading “Audience”

The genre for our upcoming film will be Horror. We decided to work with this genre to produce our next film primarily because we are well adapted and familiar to the genre. We used horror for our last film as its main genre and have been doing much research on it recently. We are notContinue reading “Genre for Our Upcoming Film”

Characters: The typical dominant characters in horror movies are men. This is mainly stereotypical but it also contains some physical aspects. Since men are usually born to be larger, they appear to be more dominant and more likely to be the killers. On the other hand, women are usually the vulnerable victims which are slaughtered.Continue reading “Representation for Horror Film Genres”

Media representation is the way that the media itself represents/portrays different social groups, communities, ideologies etc. Representation itself can have a multitude of ways to be showcased in films etc. Gender Feminine vs Masculine: femininity and masculinity are portrayed as two completely different subjects in the media industry. Women are the polar opposite of menContinue reading “Representation”

Genre: The movie ‘Us’ has 3 genres; horror, mystery, and lastly, thriller. All 3 of these genres form some part of the film in some way. Narrative: The movie ‘Us’ is about a simple family that goes on vacation and travels from their. In the opening scene, we can see an old school Tv set,Continue reading “(3) Movie with similar genre or plot of my final film”

Genre: Comedy is the only genre that pertains to this film. Narrative: The opening scene start off with the two brothers staring off their day on a bright morning. We can clearly see right off the bat that their actions do not seem adequate to one of a middle aged man. Whilst one brother isContinue reading “(2) Movie with similar genre or plot of my final film”

Genre: Comedy and Horror are the two main genres pertaining to this film. Narrative: The movie’s about the return of the original chainsaw gang. Old granddad’s on a wheelchair now, and no wonder – he’s 137 years old. The father, nicknamed Cook, has won the big Texas-Oklahoma Chili Contest two years in a row, evenContinue reading “(1) Movie with similar genre or plot of my final film”