1. Mama is a classical genre as it is a simple film.
Plot- The senior partner of an investment brokerage, Jeffrey Desange, has a breakdown due to a
financial collapse and kills several co-workers and his estranged wife. He then kidnaps his two young
daughters, Victoria 3 and Lilly just 1. He drives his car recklessly through a winding snow covered
road. He loses control of his car and drives off an embankment. He finds an abandoned and isolated
cabin where he plans to kill his daughters, but the children are saved by a dark ghostly image. After
five years of searching and depleting his savings, Jeffrey's twin brother, Lucas, finds the children that
were raised without social interaction and claim that they have been raised by 'Mama'. Lucas
disputes the custody with the children's Great Aunt but Dr. Dreyfuss, who is working with the girls,
helps Lucas get custody of the girls so that he can still have access to them. Lucas, his girlfriend
Annabel, Victoria and Lilly move into a house provided be the institute that Dr. Dreyfuss works for.
Lucas and Annabel soon find out that the girls have brought Mama with them and their lives are in
grave danger. By IMDB.
Characters- Girlfriend-Hero
Music- The music is very upbeat and tense as it makes the trailer very anxious because it is trying to
scare you.
Effects- The effects are very dark as it is a tense trailer and the colour represents the genre as it is
dark and it is tense and scary.
Editing techniques- When the scene cuts to a new scene it cuts very slow to show a match with the
genre as it is slow and very intense as it wants to build tension at the start. Near the end the cuts
become very quick because the music is getting louder and quicker.
Cabin in the woods is a deconstruction genre as it is directed cleverly and different.
Plot- Five teenagers head off for a weekend at a secluded cabin in the woods. They arrive to find
they are quite isolated with no means of communicating with the outside world. When the cellar
door flings itself open, they of course go down to investigate. They find an odd assortment of relics
and curios but when one of the women, Dana, reads from a book she awakens a family of deadly
zombie killers. There's far more going on however than meets the eye as the five campers are all
under observation. By IMDB.
Characters- Richard Jenkins- Villain
Music- The music is tense as it tries to scare the audience and show that the film is very serious and
something bad is happening.
Effects- The effects that are used are dark pictures and
Editing techniques-

2. Paranormal Activity is a mixture of experimental, deconstruction and classical.
Plot- After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become
increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most
active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to. By IMDB.
Characters- Micah Sloat- Hero
Music- The start of the trailer there was no music until a tense shot was shown and from there the
music was upbeat and very edgy as it was showing the trailer is very anxious and will make you
jump.
Effects- The effects that are used are CCTV recordings and it shows it all from the same view and the
picture is dark and mysterious.
Editing techniques- Each shot is switched by using a fuzzy shot that is from a video tape.
Drag me to hell is a deconstruction genre.
Plot- Christine Brown is a loans officer at a bank but is worried about her lot in life. She's in
competition with a competent colleague for an assistant manager position and isn't too sure about
her status with a boyfriend. Worried that her boss will think less of her if she shows weakness, she
refuses a time extension on a loan to an old woman, Mrs. Ganush, who now faces foreclosure and
the loss of her house. In retaliation, the old woman place a curse on her which, she subsequently
learns, will result in her being taken to hell in a few days’ time. With the help of a psychic, she tries
to rid herself of the demon, but faces several hurdles in the attempt. By IMDB.
Characters- Christine Brown-
Music- The music at the start is very low and it is just adding some background noise until the
woman gets cursed the music drops with a big beat and the music starts to become very edgy .
Effects- The effects that are used is that the pictures change very quickly by the judgement of the
music.
Editing techniques- The start of the trailer the pictures are very slow from changing but once the
music drops the pictures change faster which creates an anxious atmosphere for the audience.
The Purge is a classic genre.
Plot-In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an
annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity-including murder-becomes legal. The
police can't be called. Hospitals suspend help. It’s one night when the citizenry regulates itself
without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one
family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When
an intruder breaks into James Sandin's (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown,
he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife,
Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters
from whom they hide.

3. Characters- Rhys Wakefield- Villain
Music- The music that is used is very loud and edgy as it makes the audience feel how the people in
the film are feeling.
Effects- The effects at the start show how well America is with unemployment at 1% and how
beautiful the environment looks until the Purge starts and all hell breaks loose as there is a lot of
violence shown with dark pictures and eerie music.
Editing techniques- An editing technique that is used is when it says ‘the director from paranormal
activity and sinister’ it used a bell ring for each time they appear as they’re well known horror films .