Camera
Sounds
Mise-en-scene
Codes are system of signs, where you put them together to
create a meaning and this can be found in teenage horror films. There's three
different types of codes:
·
Technical Codes are such as camera techniques,
lightning, framing, sound and depth of field.
Both can be diagetic and non-diagetic.
·
Symbolic Code includes mis-en-scene (clothing,
make-up, settings) this is used to make the film more realistic and
interesting.
·
Verbal codes. this is everything to do with
languages either written or spoken.
Conventions is what you expect to see in a horror film. for
example in a horror film, you expect to see:
·
someone rips over while running.
·
whenever they get into safety, they normally are
caught.
·
there's normally always where there's no way of
transport so the victim doesn't run away that easily.
·
no signal.
I am going to analyse three different
types of teenage horror films. I am going to analyse them as they all those
three films has the use of different types of codes and convections.
Dead Wood
Four friends head out into the woods for the weekend. An unexpected
twist happened when this mysterious girl is looking for her boyfriend. Soon
everything started to change, where they
all got lost in the middle of nowhere followed by a deadly creature.
The technical codes that I'm able
to hear in the start of 'Dead Wood' are
the bird singing, which already gives away that the scene it is set in the
woods. it starts with a slow sinister music which suggests that something
horrible it's going to happen. then the music starts to get louder as the
teenage boy starts running from someone who is chasing him.
After that I started looking for
the symbolic codes in this 5 minute film. where its been used a crane camera
movement of the wood and to make it more interesting they used point of view
and tracking shots when the man is running from the creature. to show how deep
the cliff is, its been used a low angle shot. it foreshadows that the man will
fall into the cliff.
The convention of this film are
teenage boy and a teenage girl, where the boy runs away from someone, he also
trips over while he was running and gets killed, while he was trying to get in
safe place (tent).
The mise-en-scene I was able to
find was that the teenage boy was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and jeans and the
girl was wearing revealing clothes and regular make-up.
Dead Mary
Kim and her boyfriend Matt have
just broken up, but they still went to a cottage for the weekend with their
friends Eve, Dash and his wife Amber and Baker and his new girlfriend Lily.
when they decided to play "Dead Mary" and that's where all the nightmare
started.
In the beginning of the film I was
able to hear a metallic sound of chains. which makes the viewer curious of
where the film it's set. In the middle of the 5 minutes film, there's a teenage
girl who starts tapping her fingers on the roof of the car, which suggests that
she's waiting for someone and that she's bored.
The camera movement that it's been
used at the beginning is the extreme close up of the chain, there's also a
close-up of a gas station sign. this suggests that there is a gas station in the place
where they are going and that it could be an important place during the film.
there's also an extreme close up of a trunk and a point of view of the car.
this shows that someone is watching them.
This film its in the middle of nowhere,
they are even out of fuel, there's not signal where they are going as she
trying to listen to the radio and tried to go on her phone. in this 5 minutes
film the only protagonists that you can see it's a teenage boy and a girl round
their twenties and for that reason the girl wears more revealing clothes and
the way she doesn't have shoes means that she's been waiting for a long time
for someone.
Wrong Turn
Six people are stuck in the woods
of West Virginia, where they are hunted by "cannibalistic mountain men
grossly figured)
At the beginning of this 5 minute
film it starts by a low pitch sound, which sounds evil and sinister. which
already suggest that something terrible it's going to happen. After the teenage
girl says "pull me up" there's a noise of the guy (who she's gone
hiking with) falling down the mountain but before that you can hear the that
someone punched him and has been beaten
up by someone. The music stars to build up by getting louder when the
girl sees the dead body of her friend.
The first shot that I was able to see at the beginning of the film
was a establishing shot of the woods, which shows where the scene its going to
be set. In the middle of the scene there's a close up of the girl where she
struggles to climb up and there's also a close up of the rope, when she gets
pulled up by someone.
In this scene the protagonists are
a teenage boy and girl, round their twenties. This is set in woods, where
someone gets killed and when the girl tries to run away from the creature she
trips over.
The mise-en-scene of this scene is
that the teenage girl; wears revealing clothes and daily make-up. they've
already got all the climbing equipment which suggests that both of them planned
to go hiking together.
In conclusion in all of those 5
minute films, the protagonists are around their 20's and there's normally a
teenage boy and a teenage girl. In "Wrong Turn" and "Dead
Wood" the teenage boy gets killed by the suspicious creature, which aren't
able to see it in any of those three films. Since the girls area teenagers, and
because its sunny as well they wear more reviling clothes.
