Confiding to the Horror Genre Conventions

Horror Conventions

• Through my research work into Susan Hayward’s Sub-Genre Theory and the horror conventions, I tried to apply my findings to my ancillary work. I noticed that the website theme that I had chosen had a white banner going down the middle. This made it not as horrific as I had planned due to the lack of dark colour.

• To make the website more horrific, I decided to take certain elements such as text, that had a white background, and used paint to give them a dark background.

The short synopsis on Paint…

Selecting it and Choosing “Invert Colour”…

Here is the final product…