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Film Genre Research- Terrifier

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Terrifier is a horror film that came out in 2017. The job titles are music, director of photography, associate produce, co-executive producers, executive producer, producer, and written and directed by. The film starts off with incidental music with a news interview playing on a TV. The new caster is explaining who she about to interview, the lone survivor of the Miles County Massacre. The survivor's face is very disformed and creepy looking. Then a guy dressing up as a clown kicks the TV and break it. It switches between a clown get ready and the interview. There is incidental music playing in the back ground to give it a scary feel. When the clown is getting ready there are many extreme close up shots of where he is applying the makeup. The film Terrifier had a budget of one hundred thousand USD. Terrifier did not do good in the box office. Also Terrifier did not win any awards.

Film Genre Research- Clown

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The film Clown is a horror film which came out in 2014. The job titles featured in the opening credits are actors and actresses, caster of the film, make-up designer, costume designer, editor, and production designer. Co-producers, executive producers, and director where also featured in the job titles. The film starts off with telling you when and where it takes place. The film starts in 1994 on the location of an abandoned circus which is filmed by a crane shot with incidental music. Then it switches to a girl and guy discussing that everyone is leaving or being killed. Next there were shots of people leaving in a van, people chasing others with riffles and shooting them, and two guys with riffles going after someone in a tunnel. One guy enters, screams, and the other guy comes running around and sees a clown hold the first guys head. The budget of the film Clown was 1.5 million USD. The film the Clown made 2.1 million USD.

Film Genre Research- Halloween

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The film Halloween is a horror film that came out in 2018. The job titles featured in the opening credits are actors and actresses, caster of the film, make-up designer, costume designer, editor, and production designer. Co-producers, executive producers, and director where also featured in the job titles . In the opening credits the job titles are on the middle of the right side and on the left side there is a pumpkin in the rule of thirds. It starts off with two people on the location of a jail being walked out to see Michael with a worker. They are told not to go past the yellow line no matter what. Aaron Corey walks over to Michael tells him he wants to talk to him to learn more about him and that night. During this shot it is an over the shoulder to show that Michael does not want to talk to them. Then Aaron walks all the way to the line to show he is not scared of Michael and needs to talk to him. Aaron then says he has something of his and holds up his mask. Incidental music s...

Film Genre Research- Scream

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Scream is a horror film that came out in 1996. The film starts off with the phone ringing and a teenage girl answering the phone to a creepy voice. The dialogue is her telling him he has the wrong phone number and hangs up. The unknown caller then calls again, saying he wants to talk to her for a second and she hangs up again. Then there is an insert titled shot of the house and atmospheric sound of crickets chirping. The anonymous caller calls again asking why she does not what to talk to him and asks what her name is. The teenage girl asks why he wants to know her name and the anonymous caller replied with saying he wants to know who is looking at. She asks him to repeat what he said and he changes his response. Incidental music starts to play which helps create a feeling of suspense. The teenager then says she has to go and the anonymous caller angrily tells her not to hang up on him. The girl starts running around the house to lock the doors. He calls again and she says she is ab...

Film Genre Research- It

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The film It is a horror film that came out in 2017. The job titles that are featured in the opening credits is the main actors, production design, director of photography, casting agency of the film, costume design, the music supervisor, and editor. The job titles are placed in either the left or right side bottom. The month and year is given to show when the film is support to take place. The film starts with an insert of  a close-up of a paper boat that one of the the main character is making. The scene is set up in the location of a boy's bed room with it raining out side. There is atmospheric sound from the rain and creepy music that first you think is incidental music but later realize is source music from the mom playing the piano. There is a shot taken of one of the boys drawing a smiley face on the window which later disappears as the one child walks down the stairs. The color design is mostly dull colors. The set up of the first two unites of the film gives a scary impre...

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