Key Moments/ Clichés

Here are some of my favourite horror film clichés which I might include in the additional scenes of my storyboard and trailer. When I was thinking about these clichés, a lot of them were from slasher type films where the victim is running away from a killer so instead I've thought about ones from ghost films. I think it's important to include some of these clichés because although they're sometimes annoying, they are vital in the horror genre and fans will appreciate them.

1. The false scare: where there is a build up of high tension music and so we think something really bad is going to happen but it's just something like a cat jumping out. Another example is in paranormal activity 1 where the woman is in the bathroom and we hear her scream so her boyfriend runs in and she's just screaming at a spider on the floor: it's not as bad as the things which happen to her later.

2. Parents don't understand: the victim's parents don't believe their child no matter how much danger they're in.

3. Dark: typically any scenes of horror occur at night time.

4. It's just the wind/power cut: before the victim realises what's going on, s/he dismisses any noise s/he hears as the wind and any flickering lights as 'something wrong with the electricity'.

5. Found footage: sometimes the footage is filmed by the victim and the whole film is from their handheld perspective.