Focus on How Narrative and genre features Create Meaning and

The genre is revealed straight away for the audience with the opening shot of the title in red and the non-diagetic scream. Narrative is used in scream in many ways; firstly it does not follow the classic Hollywood structure of Equilibrium – Disruption – Return to equilibrium. It has a linear discourse and so promotes the actual experience of being in the film for the audience rather than a non-linear discourse, which would suggest the telling of …showed first 75 words of 802 total…

…showed last 75 words of 802 total…out alive. The narrative mood derives from normal/happy to heightening of tension during chase then suddenly very disturbing when parents come home and this is emphasized with the use of music. The music can be described as contrapuntal or parallel as it is parallel to the disturbing, tragic events, which have just taken place, but it also doesn’t fit with the half serious lighthearted horror that has been consistent to teen slasher horrors.