Movie convention Research: IT

 

Hey guys! Kazmin and the girls are gonna research horror movie conventions. Each of us researched different movies and their conventions. In this blog, we will cover the famous clown movie, IT. To start off, we are gonna cover the typical conventions seen in horror movies. Horror uses unique and uncommon angles to create confusion and unsettling experience with the viewer. The lighting fixtures tend to be dark, and underexposed with plenty of shadows, making the target market senses stressed and on edge. Furthermore, using sound, such as an excessive pitch key, creates a feeling of alarm in the audience. There is additionally an emphasis on footsteps, doorways creaking, and animal noises, making the target market sense as although they do not comprehend what is spherical in the corner. Finally, enhancing horror frequently tends to have a speedy tempo and many cuts to make the target market senses distressed, and uneasy and build dramatic anxiety for perhaps a leap scare. In the movie IT, the Hand Held camera angle is seen often to add a feel of reality. It makes the target audience sense worried and provides the horror of the scene as you sense like you are there. The low angles in It, are very effective in the way they can emphasize simply how frightening or intimidating a villain is. The tilted angles are a very common way to show distortion and scariness. They add a lot of dramatic anxiety to shots, and ought to simplify a supernatural being, for instance pushing or transferring the camera. Another superb use for the tilt shot is to act as even though the digicam is a sufferer on the ground and you are seeing what they're seeing. The group of kids in the movie IT are usually shown from a bird's eye angle in order to make the parent or object that is being seemed down upon appear definitely powerless and vulnerable.

Pennywise the clown was the image of this horror film. It's normal to see a killer clown as the villain in a horror movie but the way Pennywise's makeup, costume, and props are used makes him even scarier. His low raspy voice with a high-pitched end conveys a mysterious and scary vibe. The way he dresses and transforms throughout the movie is scary as well. Even the scene where he is crawling through the sewers will bring chills through your spine. We enjoyed, as a group, how the producers made Pennywise scary enough to keep the movie horror. In a lot of horror movies, there are high red saturation levels and demonic scenes. This is definitely seen in IT and it is successfully drawn out. The superfluous screams in the movie add to the horror conventions because it gives a touch of reality that people are truly scared inside and outside the movie. The use of not a lot of backstory keeps the audience on their toes and it shows a sense of not knowing what's next. 

Due to the fact that many horror movies rely on typical conventions, we think, IT could have done better at breaking from those conventions and doing something that really sticks out. Killer clowns are very common villains and their role will obviously be to kill people. Towards the end of the movie, Pennywise loses his way of being scary, due to everything he does becoming predictable. Although the movie doesn't necessarily have a happy ending, it doesn't leave any sort of horror or suspense in the blood. The plot alone in IT regarding the kids searching for Pennywise isn't crazy elaborated. Its been seen before in other films and TV shows where kid searches for villains in hopes of saving their lives or their towns. It is predictable. The thing that makes the movie what it is was its editing and use of common conventions. Also, there is no backstory as to why Pennywise does what he does. There are no intentions that can be seen by the audience. Overall, the plot could have been better thought out and original and the villain could have been scarier. The editing was good and the use of regular conventions was as well.