Genre
While the primary Genre of our film is obviously Horror as specified by our brief, we were also keen to incorporate the mystery and film noir genre. We both also have an interest in slightly older films from the fifties and sixties or earlier so we hoped to incorporate this era into our piece somehow. We managed this by setting a section of our scene in the 1940s, while this was primarily chosen because of our interest in the time, it could be argued that World War II was the most horrific, traumatic experience our country has ever experienced and should in itself be motif of the Horror Genre. Despite our subgenres focusing more on the historic or mysterious aspects we were also careful to include traditional conventions of the Horror genre, for example gore, when we revealed the bloody body of our victim or in our music, which built tension through its ominous theme and sudden stop; Our piece also ends with a dramatic scream, then a black screen with the audio suddenly cut off, as shown in several horror film openings for example Final Destination.
The Inspiration of Our Horror Film
Final Destination
We were inspired by the film series, Final Destination as the structure of their horror films are similar to the what we hoped to achieve, the films have a similar target audience to ours, aiming the films at older teenagers and young adults. The films feature a group of teenagers facing mortal peril, this makes the horrific scenes more relatable to the target market group and inspired us to feature a group of teenagers in our film
Chronicles of Narnia
While not a horror film we were inspired by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as we were initially keen to have a section of our film set in the second world war, so we were inspired by film sequences showing the bombing of civilians in this time, as it adds to the horrific nature of the scenes.
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