FIRST MOCK UP

INITIAL PRACTICAL IDEAS

I am going to create 3 movie posters of the horror genre. These will be off three separate films that all contain children, however in each the child will be represented differently. In one the child will be the victim, in another he child will be the one with power and finally in the third the child will be the villain.                                                            

RESEARCH UPDATE

The three films used for this research are:

The Shining 

Village Of The Damned

Insidious

Through my research I intend discover the main ways in which children are represented in these three films and why they have been used in such a way.

TERROR and everyday life  (book) Jonathan Lake Crane

The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture (book) Karen J Renner

http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/17033/why-do-many-horror-movies-involve-children (unsure wether this is a reliable source or not) 
http://elearning-events.dit.ie/unicef/html/unit1/1_3_4.htm- representations of children in the media

INTRODUCTION

This essay will investigate the representations of children in a variety of Horror films. I will use films from the early nineteen hundreds in which children were used because of it's eerie and unnatural nature, on the other hand I will use modern horrors where the children are the protagonists of the film and are victims to adult themes and issues. I will then evaluate the difference in how children have been used, furthermore using context to establish not only why these changes have occurred, but why children have been used in horror movies at all? I will observe how audiences may react differently due to their demographic and psychographics. 

HAVE AN OPINION-DIGITAL MEDIA

The current situation includes a massive amount of entertainment companies introducing online features, apps and catch up television due to the changing media industry which is gradually pushing live T.V. out. Netflix, an online streaming website is currently the leader of the pack, have profited from this change in the market as they offer hundreds of films, T.V. programmes and have even created their own to attract an even bigger audience with exclusive content. Websites such as Netflix base their company on the users control over what they watch and when they watch it. Social media has also grown dramatically and it has become an essential to have an account of websites such as Facebook or Twitter on which again, the user can choose who to follow or what to watch giving them a never ending stream of the things that they are interested in. This idea of having everything you want on demand has correlation the growth in the amount of smart phones, tablets, iPads etc as they have allowed the user to have everything they want to hear, watch or look at, on one device. This as a whole is pushing things such as Cinema, magazines, newspapers and TV out of the window because to a consumer they are all more; expensive, time consuming and are becoming old fashioned. In my opinion this is for the better as it makes it a lot easier for me to access my favourite TV show or watch my favourite film over and over again as it’s permanently in one place and it doesn’t cost me a penny more to watch it again, compare to a cinema for example, it costs around £10 for a ticket and you must also travel, on a streaming website all I need to do is open it up and select what I want to watch. However some people may prefer the experience and enjoy making a night out of a film premiere, I personally prefer to watch the biggest and most anticipated films on a big screen in a cinema on occasions. In terms of magazines and newspapers, I believe they will eventually come close to extinction as news and articles can now be found online and are again, quicker and cheaper. In the future I see only a few newspapers and magazines being published, also I see TV will slowly become less popular but not disappear due to the sheer size of its worth. Finally I see streaming websites and devices such as a Chromecast becoming more and more popular and eventually leading the entertainment market.     

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