essay plan

Intro:

• introduce film
• what your going to talk about
• etc.

Para 1:

• Generic Conventions
• iconographies
• ideologies
• "Scream" trilogy....how it uses main conventions of horror, and talks about them in the films itself (Post-modernism)

Para 2:

• Horror Genre
• Musical elemnt ( little shop of horrors)
• Sweeney Todd - Media Language examples + SHEP
• Technological advancements - how this has effected the horror genre

Para 3:

• Tim Burton - Autuer (edward Scissorhands)
• Gothic Horror Themes
• Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter(fiancé) and Winona Ryder(used in many of his films)
• Some of his films - how he's changed them
  -Edward Scissorhands
  -Nightmare Before Christmas
  -Batman
  -Corpse Bride
  -Sleepy Hollow

Para 4:

• Popularity of Musicals
  -Sound of Music
  -Oliver
  -High School Musical
  -Hairspray
• Influences on Sweeney Todd
• Indian Horror films....almost all indian films have songs....sweeney todd influenced by that

Para 5:

• Genre Lifecycles
• Last roughly 10 yrs
• musical horror is a new sub genre ....to keept the horror genre goin ( new cycle)

Conclusion:

• Has Sweeney Todd created a new sub-genre within the horror/Gothic horror Genre???
• How & Why has it done this? Summaries
• finish!