Tuesday, 22 January 2008

Genre Conventions

The genre of our film trailer is Horror and we will be following the normal conventions that you would expect to see in horror movies such as using females as the main victims in the trailer. This is because they appear to be more vulnerable and the audience sympathise them. We are going to stick with the common convention of having a male “killer” because this is also what you expect to see in movies. We have decided to stay with the typical horror conventions as they are what appeal to the horror fans.

The film will challenge the common representation of White protagonists and villains and will feature Asians instead. This is something we have decided to change to show that other people can also appear on these movies and so it is different to other horror movies.

As, this trailer is being targeted to a wide audience, it would be ideal to include some elements of a Hollywood trailer. This will be done because it will attract the audience more, however keeping elements from an art-house trailer is still essential.

The whole midnight and darkness atmosphere will be formed due to it is what makes the ‘horror’ genre and helps to make the movie seem more realistic and scary.

Nafisa .x.

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