How To Make A Horror Movie

 In approach to making our 2 minute Horror movie opening, we have done some research about this genre.This video gives us tips on how to create a Horror movie, we are first introduced to The Title "How to make a horror" and the words Horror are in bold font Bright Red and looks as if the red is dripping blood connoting Danger,Death and gore connotations of a Horror film. The first instruction that is given into making  a Horror film is to "take the happy out of it" suggesting that we should make the surroundings and the setting of the film to seem grim and scary by giving it dim lighting to make it seem darker edit the brightness so it looks colder and adding in sinister sound effects to create a mysterious atmosphere.Then the second instruction is to have a main character the protagonist they are usually the survivors or the last ones to die, then have the main characters friends which are usually a mixture of a friend who is the most terrified and doesn't want to get involved then there is the other friend who is typically stubborn and doesn't believe in any supernatural things and therefore is  the least scared. The third instruction is  to give the characters reason to get involved with the situation or to enter a place the Horror movie is based around e.g A Haunted house. Another typical character to involve is usually a person with experience with the situation they are dealing with this is usually the person that warns them and is the person the characters run to for help or for explanation. The next step is to include the background music and sound effects to make the audience feel tense and frightened themselves and helps emphasize the sudden pop ups. Then create fear by making abnormal things happen in the scenes such as objects moving by themselves seeing "unreal beings such as ghosts also making the main characters friends disappear or having the supernatural/villain kill them off , adds to the tension as it leaves the main character alone and vulnerable therefore more frightened suggesting to the audience that something may happen to the main character. Next giving reason for the main character to run away makes the audience tense as we are hoping that the main character will manage to outrun the supernatural beings . It leaves the audience on the edge of their seats and shows us how desperate the main character is to get away from the danger. The ending of the horror movie is as it typically ends with a cliff hanger has the main character really succeed or will they still be haunted.