Appreciation of the Classic Horror Movies of the 20th Century

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10.2991/assehr.k.211120.013How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Classic horror movies; 20th century; props; editing; music

Abstract

The twentieth century is an important period for the development of the film industry as the world film has achieved a leap from silent to sound, black and white to colorful. However, there is no Internet and advanced equipment, which made shooting and post-production very challenging. In particular, not only some sci-fi or horror films, but also many props and post-composite movies with virtual components need to be reflected in the actual shooting. These are reflected in lots of classic movies of the last century, especially the horror movies. The reason that they are called classics is that there are filming and production methods that the film scholars should understand and learn from. Therefore, in this paper, the author will start from the three films Jurassic Park as well as Jaws and Psycho to analyze the design of movie props, editing methods, and the choice of movie soundtrack when the technology of film was less advanced in the last century, in order to find out the measures that good filmmakers used to bring horror movies to the audience perfectly.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zixuan Wang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/29
TI  - Appreciation of the Classic Horror Movies of the 20th Century
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 72
EP  - 75
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211120.013
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211120.013
ID  - Wang2021
ER  -