Scream

Movies Made Reference To..
* A Nightmare on Elm Street
* Halloween sequels
* Night of the living dead
* Dementia 13
* Candy man
* Prom night

Key word Definitions & link to Scream Movie..

*Pastiche: This is a term used for a media text made up form other media text pieces or of imitations of other styles -This is linked to scream because the movie itself contains different movie immations within it. The text refers back to many different movies which enhances the different genre style promoted to the audience. The styles have been impacted on from the past, so the different repertoire of elements used in the horror genre over time would be deserted houses, final girl characters and iconicly recognisable murder weapons such as knifes and chainsaws.

*Irony: This is a term used to describe when humor is based on using words to suggest the opposite of their literal meaning -The text contains the usage of Irony so that the audiences can already be aware of the words and story lines the characters are playing on. If a character was to say who's there? the audience will automatically be aware that this character is about to die now because it is a rule to not ask questions about who is there, as well as this irony is used when characters are involved in sexual mating games, then the audience will already know how sex is punished and therefore these characters will certainly die.

*Intertextuality: This is referred to the practice of purposely including a reference of one text in the narrative of another, it can generate levels of meaning for the viewer -
*This is used in the text to help convey multiple meanings as well as creating awareness of the storyline for the audience. This is through mentioning certain texts, for instance if the movie Halloween was mentioned in Scream, then the characters would have a scene in the ,movie which would derive from the plot of Halloween etc.

Scream Franchise:* The movies have been directed by Wes Craven
* The plot revolves around a main phychopathic killer
* A signature device, started in Scream and continued in Scream 2 and Scream 3, was the typical "rules" for the slasher sub genre of horror movies being stated by the characters.In Scream, those rules (as described by Randy) are:You may not survive the movie if you have sex.You may not survive the movie if you drink or do drugs.You may not survive the movie if you say "I'll be right back","Hello?" or "Who's there?"A similar set of "rules" was used for the movie's trailer:Don't answer the phone Don't open the door Don't try to hide But most of all don't scream