Mood Board

Mood Board

The images below represent that of the horror parody genre. All of the images apart from one are that of "Scary Movie," with the one exception being "The Cabin in the Woods," which is another classic film in the horror parody genre. Other films in the horror-parody genre include "Shaun of the Dead," and "Tucker & Dale vs. Evil."
For the mood board I tried to go for screenshots that represent both the horror and comedy aspects of the genre. For example, I included the image of the crying woman in the woods at night to help represent the horror aspect of the film and the genre as a whole. I also included one of the key shots in the trailer, the wide shot of a house at night, to again help represent the horror genre.
However, I feel the other images help to represent the much more slap-stick, comical nature of the genre. For example the "Don't answer the phone," text, which people will know serves to mock the general horror cliche if they have seen the trailer. Also, the main antagonist of the movie, "Ghostface," (who is mocking the villain from the Scream series) can be seen in two of the shots. I think Ghostface looks quite comical within the Scary Movie franchise, and thus decided to include images of him within the mood board. A poster for "The Scary Movie Collection," is also shown, showing many bizarre, out of the ordinary characters on the front. This is of course conveying the very slapstick elements that the Scary Movie franchise incorporates.
I think the mood board helps to represent conventions of the genre by firstly featuring a mixture of comedic and horror shots (as previously mentioned.) It shows the "Using satire on horror cliches as it's main source of humour," element with the "Don't answer the phone," picture, which also of course links with the parody and spoof elements of the genre. I also think clear example of gallows humour can be seen in the mood board, with the villain holding up a comical looking knife while looking into the camera.
I think in terms of visual style, a clear style can be identified from the mood board. Quite dark, bold colours are used throughout like black, red and dark orange. It is important that the colours visible are not all dark or not all bright, so people know that both happy and sad elements are exploited within the medium. I think this compromise of dark colours presented in quite a bold and bright way helps to represent the comedy-horror genre as a whole. This is something I should consider when making my trailer.