GENRE CODES

Remember that visual and sound codes signal genre. Your film opening must have codes that quickly and efficiently signal genre to your viewer. In class Group 3 looked at how to employ the horror genre convention of enigma as well as of false alarm in their film opening. 

For example, in their banshee film, a character may be startled by what appears to be a supernatural figure with a horrific face, but it turns out to be merely a teenager wearing hallowe'en make-up. This false alarm quickly establishes the the horror genre.

Another example that the group have devised is the false alarm in which one of the group appears to be missing, then a stranger's hand is apparently placed from behind on the shoulder one of the group, leading the viewer to fear that they are under attack, but it it is merely the friend after all rejoing the group.