Comparison of Horror 1950 - Modern Day

The following link is a very useful little run through of three things:

1) Decade by decade summing up of 'popular horror' of that decade
2) Highlight the changing tastes of the consumers, themes, plots and tolerance to violence.
3) A social and historical context to that those changes

Also gives a list of the main film titles for those decades please.

Task:
• Create a time line 1950  to modern day ( you can add in in current horrors since this article was written, such as 'IT' for the 2010s).
• Explain the main changes in the horror film industry decade to decade.
read around the suggested  social and historical factors which the article suggests are catalysts for change.

• List FIVE of the most popular horror films for that decade.
• Choose one of the main films in each decade and find an example of the film poster.
• Does the poster reflect any of these changes?
• Is there any intertextuality?
• Are there any obvious changes to representation or stereotypes?
• You may use other posters from each decade to strengthen any further points.

It may well help to revisit the work sheet where we covered some key language and theories and apply these to each poster to help identify any similarities or differences.

Link:

https://www.thoughtco.com/a-timeline-history-of-horror-movies-1873246

Intertextuality in Scary Movie

'Scary Movie' made its box off money by very unsubtly using intertexts with some very iconic horror film. 

It is a parody so all scenarios therefore depend on the text from other movies. 

One aspect of the film that will clearly be recognised by the audience is the character from 'SCREAM

Like all intertextual texts, Scary Movie uses the original element but slight changes are necessary.

Task: 
Find me as many intertexts as you can.

Intertextuality in The Simpsons

Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock

Silence of the Lambs

The Beatles - Abbey Road Album

Intertextuality

Task: Spend 15 minutes looking at other 1960s horror film posters. 

• Make connections form me between these in terms of common themes, look, characters, story lines, location, colours etc. 

• Use thumbnails to make this a very visual page as possible - This can be bullet pointed, short hand notes.

What is intertextuality?
 
• Intertextuality is the way in which media texts purposely give references to other media texts in order to give the audience recognition. 

It involves the process of extracting elements from existing texts and subtly (or in some cases very unsubtly) including them in the making of your own, this can be Mise en scene, sound, editing, or simply the plot. 

Intertextuality often takes place in media forms under the same genre,
 

Task:
Let's look at The Simpsons: 
• How many examples of them including references to other programmes, plots, to people, films, characters, art work, can we find?  

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Kiss of the Vampire

We will use this HORROR poster from 1963 to refresh our selves with some of the language around the codes and conventions of print based media to look at semiotics, types of codes, stereotypes and some key theorists view points

Click on 'COMPONENT 1 FACT SHEETS' to download a copy or
it is in shared drive - subjects - media and film studies - AS media 17-19 and is called Kiss of the Vampire analysis.

Use it as a focus for todays lesson and save it ready to upload it as a post with Mrs Mc Donald-Holmes on Monday.