Genre Research Summary

The research that I have done on the openings to both Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project have given me some good ideas about what to include in our opening sequence. I found that most horror films provide an enigma that makes the audience more eager to watch the rest of the film, making it far more successful. This has been an influence to our opening sequence as it is going to end on a cliffhanger which provides a sense of mystery, again a typical aspect of the horror genre within the films I have researched. The lighting in these films is generally noir, so we aim to film at a time that it is fairly dark in order to create this effect. If this is successful it will make the genre of our film far more recognisable and understandable.