coverwork - scream franchise

Scream
directed by the same person who did nightmare on elm street, Wes Craven. The film was released in 1996, it was a revitalisation of the slasher film genre, a sub-genre of horror. Scream was the highest grossing film in the year 1996, it made a total domestic gross of $103,046,663, followed by its success it brought out scream 2, 3 and 4.

The most significant part of the film would be when the character randy describes the rules for a slasher/horror film:

• You may not survive the movie if you have sex.


• You may not survive the movie if you drink or do drugs.


• You may not survive the movie if you say "I'll be right back","Hello?" or "Who's there?"
  A similar set of "rules" was used for the movie's trailer:


• Don't answer the phone


• Don't open the door


• Don't try to hide


• But most of all don't scream

Synopsis

Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) answers the phone, the man who has called saying he has the wrong number. He calls again, and from there the scene turns into the ultimate trivia contest. If Casey answers the horror based trivia questions right, she and her boyfriend, Steve (Kevin Patrick Walls) get to live. Answer wrong and she dies. She gets a trick question though, "Who is the killer in Friday the 13th?" The man on the other end doesn't say if it is the series or the first film. She answers Jason; in the original film it is his mother. The caller reveals Casey's boyfriend Steve is tied up outside. He is murdered before her eyes.

references to other films that scream has are the following:

• A nightmare on elm street


• Halloween


• Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement'. so in the terms of the characters they have become aware of the events that surround them, as in the case of randy, making the film more interesting to watch as the audience are curious to see if they survive knowing how things work.

Pastiche is a work of art that mixes styles or copies the style of another artist, this could be linked with the director, Wes Craven, as he links this film with his other film 'A nightmare on elm Street', one of the characters (tatum) wears a jumper which is similar to that of freddy krugger, this could also be seen as a possible link between the two films.

Irony is a mode of expression that calls attention to the character's knowledge and that of the audience.

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booklet - coverwork

Unit 1:Introducing Genre
Genre is actually a French word for "Type" or "Category"
It's a concept that allows and helps scholars to study films, film making and the audiences response for these films
Genres are not fixed, they are used to help us understand films

Unit 2:Genre Classification
Genres are not fixed, they are actually dynamic, the definition of any particular genres is Fluid
Iconography can be both visual image and sound image
Most genres offer a narrative of "Reassurance"
Some characters are so"tightly" associated with the genre that they then become "Generic types"

Unit 3:Hollywood and Genre
"Hollywood is a generic cinema, which is not quite the same as saying it is a cinema of genres" Richard Maltby, 1995
Genre began to decline because genre theorist argued that "genres began as fairly loose groupings that gradually evolved towards a "mature" or "classic" period."
"B" films and genres, like genre fiction, were seen as "low status" by critics and commentators

Unit 4:Audiences and Genres
There are many pleasures that audiences get from film genres. These pleasures are the following:
Emotional Pleasures-Some genres are generically designed to make the audience feel emotional in different ways
Visceral Pleasures- This is how the film is style to have a physical effect on audiences
Intellectual Puzzles- This allows the audience to interact and allows them to try and unravel the mystery of "whodunnit"
Counter-Culture Attraction- Where the audience can unravel the genre from the conventions of the the films or in other words, the "Repertoire of Elements"
There are hybrid films that mix the conventions of more than one or two genres together, therefore reinterpreting them.
The strongest elements of genre is the emotional response that they are designed to get from the audience

Unit 5: Stars and Genres
Theorist "Ellis" stated that "Stars hold a "promise" to audiences"
Film theorist "Dyer" stated that Stars are seen as "Commodity", which is an important asset or element of making and selling a film
The relationship between stars and genre or even generic elements are fluid

Essay Homewok Task

Targets:

1. more quotes from beter and more reliable sources
2. better use of key concepts

Next Step

1. bibliography - more books, alphabetise it, add moving images section as well as works cited and works consulted.
2. get better references, other than wikipedia
3. include more key concepts, such as Narrative, Representations, Audience and Ideologies
4. Wider Contextual issues, economical, political and historical
5. use a couple more theorists