what is the typical conventions of horror films?

When it comes to a horror film there are several conventions you can guarentee will be included in the film. these are things such as:

• Murder, usually the murder victim is a young woman. Also the murder happens within the begining of this film. Same as to this in our film the victim will be a young, nieve teenage girl. however we are going to adapt when our victim is murder slightly. The murder will happen about a quarter of the way through our film.
• Blood, as there is lots of vicious murders. There tends to be lots and lots of blood, making another convention of horror films which is gory.
• A murder wepon, the wepon is usually put in obvious places and used for previous scences to give you a clue that the object is going to be of some kind of significance later on in the film. In our film we are going to use this convention in a similar way, the murder wepon will be placed in an obvious place so it is clearly in view, therefore giving the audience a strong hint that this object will be of importance in our fim.
• Scary music, sounds are used to build up suspense in tension filled moments. This is usually before something bad is going to happen to give the audence a warning. In the opening of out film we will make use of the typical convention of scary music to have the audience sat in suspense before the film have even started, this way they will be prepared for the horror to come.

Media Horror film interview

This is a video showing our group interview two teenagers(one male one female)to find out why they are interested in the horror genre. We asked them several questions, they then answered one after another telling us why they think teenagers choose to watch horror films.