Applying Genre To Our Short Film
The genre that we are going to apply to our film is Psychological Horror. We are using this genre because it has the most relevant elements to what we would like to achieve with our short film, and we also feel like we can recreate the common tropes and effectively make a psychological horror within 5 minutes. Unlike conventional horror films, psychological horror films replace physical threats with psychological, we are looking to explore the mind of the protagonist in our film, representing a psychological threat with a physical one.
We are interested in including as many subtle, creepy details as possible in order to hint the audience without giving anything away. In doing this, we also want to create the film so that the viewer notices details/techniques which they hadn't noticed before each time that they watch it.
In our film, we are also using the protagonist's mental illness as a device to create a psychological threat. As mentioned earlier, this will be represented as a physical threat.
Other examples of psychological thriller similar to the film we are creating are here:
The Smiling man:
The Shining:
The Silence of the Lambs:
Other examples of psychological thriller similar to the film we are creating are here:
The Smiling man:
The Shining:
Jacob - this appears to have been posted twice. Can you delete this one, unless you were allocated this task individually.
ReplyDeleteCan you apply theory? For example - where you discuss conventions, you could apply Altman. You should also apply Neale to explain the advantages of varying the normal conventions.
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