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ORANGE - Stock Characters
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PURPLE - Themes
"With the end of year exams impending for students at Locksford High; Harry, Sarah, Jordan, Lucy and Hannah are struggling to deal with the pressures of expected success and are willing to do what it takes to succeed. Although exams are only a day away the teenagers are seen smoking in the school toilets during school where they come across a sheet of paper listing the answers for their forthcoming exams, do they cheat and use the answers or do they hand it in to staff? Realising they’re not alone they threaten student Kate, who looks shaken to death, to not reveal what they’ve found with devastating consequences. Although fellow student Sarah protests that they shouldn’t use the answers the rest of the group pressure her into doing it.
A day later the exams arrive where all students of Locksford High are in the exam hall about to begin, whilst Sarah looks hesitant about what she’s about to do the rest of the group look smug with no signs of guilt? The girl they threatened, Kate Black, coincidently walks into the exam hall late looking more frightened than anyone else resulting in the five teenagers exchanging nervous looks. The exams begin with all five nervous about the girl whose life they threatened.
3 Months later on a damp and misty day its results day where it’s revealed that all five students have passed their exams with all A’s, consequently this is on the same day that it is revealed that the body of their fellow student Kate has been found dumped in a river after failing her exams due to nerves and anxiety put upon her by the group of teens. Feeling relieved that there is now no threat of getting caught the teens go out to celebrate, what they don’t know however is that there is a blood hungry psychopath out for revenge who will not stop till she has all five teens blood on her hands
The teens are quickly one by one locked up in the basement of the school and put into a test against their life in which the consequences of failing can lead to a sliced throat or amputated arm. With their lives on the line at the hands of a maniac out for revenge, this is one exam they cannot afford to fail."
Deconstructing my synopsis using Burton's theory allows me to define my genre as horror. All elements ensure an understanding of the genre and how to impose this upon the audience successfully. They are similarities between the synopsis' I deconstructed in my research task, for instance, I found that the setting is often in a domestic or private sphere which is personal, this is set in a school where students and staff are supposed to feel safe, this suggests a lack of hope of being saved, which increases vulnerability. I am able to identify all of Burton's key elements in my synopsis which leaves a clear connection with the theory and genre being easily recognised.
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