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Independent study proposal

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2750611737/

Is the hills have eyes a typical horror film
Hypothesis: horror films have typical conventions which appear in all horror films things such as representation of women and how they are presented in films, also they have to have a villain character that is able to intimidate the audience. The hills have eyes is different from other horror films due to its scientific story line but could it be classed as a typical horror film?
For my independent study i will be looking at the hills have eyes and if it can be called a typical horror film, i will be focusing on women’s roles in horror and compare the female characters roles in the hills have eyes to female characters roles in other films such as psycho. Also i will be looking at the original the hills have eyes 1977 to see the similarities and differences that could have been effected because of the time period.

Migrain Analysis:

The font used in the beginning of the trailer shows the military story behind it, the fact that it talks about the US army dropping bombs it would make anyone interested in that topic interested in this ..
0film, also it shows issues that are relevant today as Americas army has been in the media for many different reasons.
The lighting is dark giving the film a sinister feel to it.
The use of non diegetic sound allows the film to have a real feel to it, by hearing things you would be used to hearing in the scene it allows you take the film in a realistic way, and therefore when the scary bits happens it makes them more shocking then other films.
Also from the trailer the audience can hear the screams of the characters which confirms the audiences thoughts of it being a horror film.

Institution
- fox search light pictures

Genre
- horror
from the trailer you can see that the genre of the film is horror by the things that are going on in the trailer for example the women’s screams and also at one point of the trailer there are beep sounds which also sound like that machine in the hospital that shows when people die. The font of the writing in the trailer also adds a sinister effect which shows its thriller horror genre.

Representations
- women being venerable and the weaker sex
- males being represented as stronger through the monster characters
- women being provocative

audience
both genders, ages 15 – 35, social class b,c1,c2,d

ideology
patriarchy, matriarchy

wider texts
- the original hills have eyes
- psycho and also all other horror films to see if hills have eyes are the same to the other films in that genre.

Theories
Will be looking at theories such as Mulvey and also Propp and Blommer and kats