Peju's Media Blog

In terms of horror films narrative is a 'chain of events' in a cause-effect relationship occurring through time- according to Bordwell & Thompson. It is also a way of organising spatial and temporal events.  I will be using my summer trailer  'Don't look back' to compare and contrast the theories of horror with what i produced. The first theory i will be applying Todorov's 3 Act Structure theory. In terms of this theory, my summer trailer doesn't conform to these rules. as i didn't include a resolution as i thought that would be giving too much away and the audience wouldn't want to come and watch the film , this is my way of luring them to see the film. Therefore my summer trailer broke this narrative theory. Todorov argued that narrative always has always had a structure. He created a 3 Act Structure, Equilibrium,Disequilibrium & Resolution. The equilibrium is when there is a point of stanility and everything is normal and calm. In my tra...

Genre is a tool that guides us to be able to distinguish a difference between texts and audience responses to certain things, by dividing them into categories based on common elements. All genre's have sub-genres, sub-genres are the common elements which are then divided into more specific categories that allow audiences to identify them. Steve Neale a genre theorist stated that 'genre are not systems they are processes' - they are dynamic and they evolve over time. In my opinion i think the reason for genre development may be due to the evolving of technology, as technology develops there will be new props and networks to make genre's better. There will be more focus as they will have more tools to help them. Also the reason for development f genre may be to please the audience, they may have changing tastes and they may require to see different things there for publishers need to meet their audiences needs. Also the circumstances in the 1950's will be so much m...