ED NW first research task

ED-Research task

Task 3.

1.     We find zombies faces so frightening because they have near human faces and studies have shown that 3,000 people found the near human faces repulsive and so they are able to strike fear into us. Research into the “uncanny valley” revealed that human like robots didn’t always provide more comfort and in fact were sinister if they were too human like and this is why we see fear in human like creatures. We are unable to intemperate a zombies face especially because there is glazed over eyes and this means that the human brain is unable to process what it sees and interpret meaning and so this is able to frighten us.

2.

·      Zombie apocalypses have a appeal which is ‘would I survive it?’ and this is a appeal in its own right because people wonder if they would survive the scenario themselves.

·      Other scenarios require some extreme luck or genetic to survive where as zombie apocalypse provides a scenario, which it seems, anyone can survive.

·      People prefer the zombies to be like they are on the walking dead e.g. slow moving and slow reflexes and this is because it is easier to survive them.

·      They ignore the long term effects and focus on survival they also deliberately don’t take into consideration things that may happen if humans did disappear e.g. nuclear explosions.

·      The attraction of other people being gone and so survivors can have what they want cars, mansions and other expensive items as with no law left they are free to take what they want and this is appealing to viewers.

3.

·      The fear of the dead compels us and it is very popular at the moment. Most zombie movies follow the rules of the night of the night of the living dead, as this was the bible of all zombie films.

·      It shows what happens to normal everyday people in this situation, which we like and it is different because most films don’t show the side of the survivors.

·      The scare is not the actual zombie itself it is the fact that you are living in a world where you are never safe and you cannot relax. This is the living fear and the audience are able to feel hopeless. It’s a different type of horror its not a immediate scare its only after time the insecurity builds up that there is the constant scare of dying.

Task 4:

1.

·      Audiences vicariously seek out thrills because they want a thrill that is going to shock them and affect them in a certain way. They want to be moved by a film and compelled by it so they seek the right thrill for them.

·      Audiences also want to feel that they are able to live in the scenario, which the film is placed in because it enables them to use their imagination to help them see them selves in the film.

2.

·      The different types of thrills that are presented in this genre are scare thrills where audiences physically jump at what they are seeing on screen and feel frightened.

·      Audiences may also be looking for a gore factor in a film and want to feel repulsed by what they see on the film this is a something which is incorporated into ‘the human centipede’ series as it is disturbing and gory.

        The appeal to the audience is that they will feel as if they have experienced something after this and they have put themselves through a challenge by watching these films.