unit 2 Communication skills for the creative media industrys

Horror

Here i have took three sources of the internet and three sources from books from my college library on the genre Horror. The three source that i have used in the form of a book were

• Mass media
•  film 
• how to make a film. 

In these books they talk about what horror is. For example in the book 'how to make a film' it talks about some of the classics such as the 'bride of Frankenstein' ,'the exorcist','ring','the Blair which project' Now everyone has heard of these four horror movies because there are so iconic. 

And again in the book 'film' it talks about what 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 shows me what it is exactly it is that people want to experience when watching a horror movie or a thrilling TV series. 

Another example of the genre of horror is the mass media book which talks about "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"

The three sources that i have used on the internet

• Wikipedia
• thescriptlab.com
• literaryterms.net

Then i went onto google and typed in 'what is horror' Once doing this i then when onto Wikipedia to find out what horror fiction actually is to create a better understanding of the meaning horror. "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'. it creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror is frequently supernatural, though it can be non-supernatural. often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society. 

On the website www.thescriptlab.com i found a pat of the article that recommends movies to watch and what movies give you hat feeling that leaves you hiding behind the sofa trying to hide but yet leaving you wanting to peek for 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". 

Another website that i found when looking ion the internet was www.literaryterms.net and i cam across all the different types of horrors that there was. "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.