Thursday, 20 January 2011

Group - Chosen Genre

After much discussion, we have decided to choose psychological horror as our genre. There are a number of reasons for this:

  • Horror films tend to have a lower budget when compared with most thriller films. This means the genre is more accessible and achievable to us.
  • Well-trained actors are less necessary as horror films have a lighter focus on characters but rather on the feelings of panic, suspense, etc. incited in the audience.
  • We all enjoy horror films so we already have a good experience of the genre and knowledge of its conventions.

2 comments:

  1. I think that psychological horror is the most realisitic genre to work on, considering that most thriller films have much higher budgets and I think teen films require quite a good script and good actors, which may be more difficult. In that sense, I'd say horror is the most achievable but it still gives us good creative scope.

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  2. I agree that horror seems to be the most suitable genre, and psychological horror is the ideal sub-genre because it requires little acting skill in order to achieve a very powerful psychological impact in the audiences' minds.

    There are a wide range of techniques available to use which are conventional to this sub-genre and the majority of them should be fairly easy to mimic without the need for a high budget.

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