SLEEPING HOLLOW

Sleeping Hollow has the conventions of a horror film because the setting is dark with dark clouds creating a macabre setting. It also depicts that it is early morning and is about to rain, the rain foreshadows that something bad is going to happen. Also in horror films they have the howling wolf which they had in Sleeping Hollow. The music chances tempo quick so it creates tension and suspense foreshadowing that something is going to happen, also that it is going to happen to the first character we see (Johnny Depp). But it then goes soft and we see a village depicting that we are getting closer to the action. Also the music gets softer because the village is quiet and empty all the people have fled away like something is going to happen. The people that are still in the villages close their widows so that they feel protect or that they are shutting out Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp looks scared himself, like he knows something is wrong.
We see a grave yard showing that a lot of deaths have happened and graveyards are one of the conventions in horrors. We see another grave yard but a bigger one with a dark house. The graveyard foreshadows that deaths have happened or about to happen in that dark big house and in horror films they always have a dark big spooky house where everything takes place.

One of the conventions is forests and Sleeping Hollow is set next to the forest in the opening scenes. The title comes up and then they become like water because they are no more still then they fade away depicts that maybe characters are going to be killed on by one leaving Johnny Depp the last one alive.