KILLER’S IDENTITY IS A MYSTERY

• Most Slasher films will have a killer whose identity is unknown for most of the film, sometimes all of it. This is to keep the audience interested by leaving his identity up to them and as a narrative tool, so the protagonists have something to investigate.

• In my media product, we have used this with our own villain for these reasons and to also make him more sinister as he is faceless murderer

Ghost face killer from famous slasher film Scream

3 masked Killers from The Strangers

Killer from Dante’s Harpie (My media product)

YOUNG CHARACTERS

• Certain films use age as a way so the characters can relate to the audience. An example of this is a Coming of age drama. These films use teenagers and they appeal to teenagers.

• In my media product, the main characters are young, as to attract people in the same age gap.

Teenage cast of I Know What You Did Last Summer

Cast of Cabin in the Woods

Victim from Dante’s Harpie (My media product)

Police officers from My media product

LOCATION

• A horror films setting is key. It would be set somewhere ‘normal’ such as a school or woods, as to have the audience in a familiar setting so they can then have a new fear for it.

• In my media product, I used a common setting of horror films. I used a wooded area for narrative purposes, as the killer kills his victims there, and for the purpose above, as to make a familiar setting scary for a viewer.

Location for Friday the 13th

Location for Psycho

Location for my Dante’s Harpie (My Media product)