Convention Mind map and Target Audience for Horror

Convention Mind Map Of Horror 

In this mind map you can see that there is loads of conventions/cliches of horror, For example the location of horror is normally in either a structured house/convenience store/basement or in the woods. People are normally evil in horror and films and normally die. Women tend to shower a lot, but normally ends with either cut hair or blood everywhere. Some horror films tend to use creepy girls, which always end up evil. Also the characters used are either slasher, mainstream, zombie, vampire (vampires weren't likable in some strange way) Finally horror films are mainly gruesome films.



The target audience is around 18+ this is because horror is a very gruesome and scary genre so its best if adults who are able to watch scary film to watch horror. The interests that the people have to have while watching horror is you have to like scary thing e.g creepy dolls, clowns, vampires,
zombies etc, because this is what you will expect in horror films. The directors who produce this film make the film indulging, frightening for the audience so that the audience can be scared or just enjoy the thrill of the creepy gruesomeness. Most horror themes are performed in a minor key to provide a creepy tone and a sense of dread towards the impending audience. The reoccurring reflect the audience by it being scary and gruesome this is what works best for a target audience as this is what they expect and what makes the genre horror. Also the themes such as Halloween is a great theme as Halloween is supposed to be scary and the kids enjoy it but watching Halloween movies is more thrilling to an older audience than the younger as the kids won't know the true meaning of Halloween as it is supposed to scare the audience and thrill them with gruesome creepiness.