Analysing music video 1.

This video by Michael Jackson clearly belongs to the horror genre as it includes lots of conventions which belong to the horror genre. The video starts off with a black background with red text stating "Michael Jackson's Thriller". Red and black colours are a convention of horror movies as they are often associated with evil and danger.

The video begins with Michael and an un-named female character acting out asif they are characters within an 80's horror film. Both Jackson and the female character are wearing conventional 80's high school clothing which includes football jersy's and long dresses.

Whilst acting, Jackson then transforms into a Werewolf and begins to chase the female character. This is another convetion of horror films as usually a character will be hiding a deep dark secret, such as in this case Michael is a Werewolf, and then turns evil and attempts to kill the main female character.

The lighting throughout the video is dark and eery which is another convention which indicates to the audience that this video is based on horror films. The only light within the video is the light from the full moon which gives the video an eery effect. Typically within horror films there is low lighting and the main light source is usually natural light from the moon.

During the video, Jackson and the female character walk alone down a road with low lighting and appear to be cornered by zombies. Zombies are a typical enemy found within horror films and they have been used within this video as they help the audience to recognise that this video is ment to be a horror video as zombies are an iconic figure within horror films.