Conventions in a movie are certain film components that regularly occur related to a genre. It's also something that the audience will expect to happen or to see on screen, in this case when watching a Horror movie. Usual conventions are:
- blood, death, murder, violence
- hero\villain, protagonist\antagonist
- darkness
- forest
- quite suburbs
- old, big, abandoned house
- basement, attic
- weapons, chainsaw, knife
- ghosts
- dolls, clowns
- freaky children
- car break downs
- blonde sexy women are victims
- characters introduced in beginning will die
- the most quite and unobstrusive character is bad guy
- electrical power outage
- silence
- isolation
- hiding
- kidnapping
- sounds: panting, slow scary music, telephone ringing(and no one's there)
Looking at the opening sequence of the cult horror 'Scream' with Drew Berrymore, the following conventions from the above are represented:
- night time
- character playing with knife
- big house (more places to hide) in the middle of nowhere
- blonde yound pretty woman alone at home
- locking the doors -> danger impending
- telephone ringing
- shut curtains waving in breeze
- dogs barking
- sounds of squeking swing in the garden
- breeze outside
Characters:
- dumb, innocent, pretty blonde that is going to die
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