Unit 2 Communication skills for the creative media

Horror

In this assignment i have took three different sources from the web and i have also took three sources from books. The three sources i have used from the internet are en.wikipedia.org, the scriptlab.com and literaryterms,com

firstly i went on the internet and searched for "what is horror" after i searched this i went on the wiki page. this shown me what horror fiction is, this helped me to understand what the horror genre is like i found the meaning here ""Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle their readers or viewers by including feelings of horror and terror. Literary historian J.A. Cuddon has defined the horror story as 'a piece of fiction in purpose of variable lengths... which shocks or even frightens the reader, or perhaps includes a feeling of repulsion or loathing". The horror film genre has a quite sinister feel to it. horror is produced to scare people through supernatural and none super natural.

 I then searched again and i found an article on www.thescriptlab.com. the article recommended people horror movies to watch. the article picked horrors that got you terrified but horrors that made you want to watch more. "A nightmare on elm street- Freddy Kruger, an evil being from another world, stalks a group of teenagers and kills them through there dreams, Saw- Two men are held hostage by a psychopath, who is set on teaching his victims the value of life by putting them into demented life or death games, and finally Friday the 13th- While trying to re-open a summer camp, a group of camp counselors are mysteriously murdered by a machete swinging slasher".

The final website that i found when i searched was www.litraryterms.com and i then found all differenet types of horror movies. ""There is 'Gothic horrors' which is also known as Gothic fiction or fantasy, and is a dark style of fiction that combines horror and romanticism. 'supernatural horror' A supernatural horror is work of fiction that relies heavily on supernatural or paranormal elements to drive the story. 'non-supernatural horrors' a non-supernatural horror is a work of fiction that does not include supernatural elements, the terror of non-supernatural horror comes from the idea that what is happening in the story could plausibly occur in real life, 'Importance of horror' in what is often considered the most important essay on the horror genre ever written, 'supernatural horror in literature,' horror fiction author H.P Lovercraft begins by stating, 'the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” Accordingly, horror is important because it unearths an audience’s deepest nightmares and anxieties and truly pushes the limits of human emotion and fear. Appreciably, horror writers often employ topics and ideas that the everyday person would be apprehensive of addressing.

The three sources that i used from the books were Mass Media, film, How To Make A film, 

In the books that i have found the writter talks about what a horror film. "In the book how to make a film" the writter wrote about some of the original horror movies such as "the exorcist" "ring" "the blair which project" and "the bride of Frankenstein" this list of movies are so iconic in the horror genre.

In the book "film" the writter wrote about the genre of horror actually is "horror movies tap into our deepest fears and anxieties, and what is suggested is often more frightening than what is revealed. The German expressionist films of the 1920s, influenced by the English Gothic novel, were among the first examples of the genre". From reading this book it has enlightened me of what people want to see while watching a horrow movie or a horror tv show.

Another book i read was about the genre of horror the book i read was "the mass media" book the writer wrote "The way researches study the media is affected by their theories out what is going on when people are exposed to the mass media. As thesa theories change so the methoda change too. We will begin this chapter with a brief overview, broadly chronological of the different theories about the interaction between the mass media and the audience that researches have had"