Assignment 1
- 1. Assignment1 Genre and structure Toby Prichard, Conner Smith, Mykola Serbov
- 2. Killer: Backwoods and Rednecks
- 3. The hills have eyes The Texas chainsaw massacre In fear
- 4. Conventions • Happy beginning (traveling) • Group of people or young adults going somewhere • Girl left on her own • Better equipped antagonist who start attacking for no reason • Incapable protagonists • location/setting(remote)
- 5. Conventions: location/setting(remote) The house in texas chainsaw massacre is secluded and has no nearby inhabitants. The forest road that In Fear is set is vast and empty of any life aside the protagonists and antagonists . The desert area the story is set is completley baron and secluded.
- 6. Conventions: location/setting(area is well known to antagonist) In texas chainsaw massacre the house they find is where leatherface lives. The area in In Fear is the same place the antagonists use to stalk their victims. In the hills have eyes the area surrounding the gas station is where the cannibals attack people
- 7. convention :plot(group traveling) In every Backwoods and Redneck film we have seen the protagonist always travel in a group of people. The group usually consist of a family, or young adults. In the film the hills have eyes In the film Texas chainsaw massacre In the film In fear, two young adults It’s a family which travels in a a group of young people travel in a travel in a car. Caravan. A small van.
- 8. Convention:character types In every Backwoods and Redneck films there are different types of characters. There are both convection on the protagonist and the antagonists. Freaks: Innocent girl Innocent people Freaks are often characters which are very unusual and look very disturbing, and you would always see them in Backwoods and Redneck ,movies Texas Chainsaw massacre The hills have eyes There is always one innocent girl which is just in the wrong place at the wrong time. She is often hunted by the freaks and survives different types of horror. Just as the innocent girl there are always people who die without deserving it. Their death is usually very bloody and they tend not to live to the end
- 9. conventions :location/setting (dark attack scenes) tcm I f hhe
- 11. convention:plot( girl left alone)