Changes in Technology

Examples of technological advances in the film industry include the invention of the Steadicam which allowed the camerato appear to float and enabled the stalking shots so important in horror films, developments in digital video editing techniques which led to fast paced editing and exact pacing of music with on-screen action. The Blair Witch Project is a good example of a film influenced by new technology - its entire look is the result of the use of cheap digital cameras which did not exist a few years ago and it was the first films to be marketed initially through the Internet, itself an important new technology.

4. Quiz: Would you survive a teen slasher movie?

Scary Movie 2 spoofs the rules and cliches of the slasher movie genre. Certain characters are for the chop. A lucky few will stay the course. But which category do you fall into, and which character do you play?

- Answer the following questions and see if you would survive Bloodbath, our very own teen slasher movie.

- What principle themes, conventions, iconography of the genre, generic expectations of the audience does this quiz, in a playful and rather ironical way, illustrate?

How old are you?

13-19

Over 35

Under 13

20-35

Which of these characters most suits your own personality?

- Betty-May, the class bitch with the unfeasibly tight skirt and moronic jock boyfriend Henry, the bookish but basically decent geek who deconstructs the killer’s actions

- Amanda-Jane, the kooky class outsider who suspects the killer is someone she knows

- Skooter, a panting adolescent braggart given to blundering through darkened garages shouting: “Betty-May! Betty-May - is that you?”

How many sexual partners have you had?

- Several, including that twitchy-eyed nerd who you publicly dumped at the school prom

- One - your high-school sweetheart

- None

- Too many to mention - those wild teenage parties all blur into one

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