{"id":4273,"date":"2012-01-19T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2012-01-17T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T10:51:15","slug":"consejos-al-dia-dia-4-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/2012\/01\/19\/consejos-al-dia-dia-4-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with tips, day 4: Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horror is not only a genre. It&#8217;s easy to forget that it&#8217;s also an emotion, and a very powerful one, that we can use in all kinds of stories at some point or other. Here are a few recent <a title=\"Screenwriting tips\" href=\"http:\/\/screenwritingtips.blcklst.com\/\">Screenwriting Tips<\/a> on HORROR.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>861: Horror is when the audience has no idea what\u2019s going to happen next, coupled with the awful suspicion that maybe they don\u2019t want to find out.<\/p>\n<p>825: The longer you draw out a mystery, the better the payoff has to be.<\/p>\n<p>797: It\u2019s easy to make us empathize with horror movie characters. It\u2019s a lot harder to make us empathize with the monster (also a lot more fun, and potentially more disturbing).<\/p>\n<p>796: Horror has to be transgressive \u2014 a violation of the normally-polite pact between storyteller and audience. If you\u2019re not crossing some kind of line, you\u2019re doing it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>772: Fear of the unknown only works up to a point. Horror that never explains itself or establishes any sort of rules eventually becomes frustrating, then laughable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Worth thinking about it, right?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horror is not only a genre. It&#8217;s easy to forget that it&#8217;s also an emotion, and a very powerful one, that we can use in all kinds of stories at some point or other. Here are a few recent Screenwriting Tips on HORROR. 861: Horror is when the audience has no idea what\u2019s going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[44,48],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taller-literario","tag-guion","tag-internet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}