Thursday 19 March 2009

genre/audience expectations

Our movie "HELP" falls into the thriller/horror category. Throughout the production we will be showing feelings of isolation and depression through a number of shots. There will not be much dialogue in our film and we are going to have to represent feelings and emotion through shot types rather than actual conversation.

One of the most important things in a thriller is making sure you keep the audiences attention and not give the plot away too early in the film, you have to keep then guessing. The main plot in HELP is trying to find out who is talking to Fiona on the computer. The movie moves on and we begin to think about why this person is doing this and what will happen to Fiona. The audience also want to see action so our group will have to try and satisfy all the expecations of our viewers.

On the horror aspect our film is a guessing game. Inspirations have been taken from films such as "taken" and "saw". Our film will not be as graphic as Saw but some aspects have been taken from it. In a horror the audience expect to be scared and they will usually contain killing or violence. Our film will not be focusing too much on these aspects, just on a few.







I think these two clips represent what our group is trying to capture in our production, "Taken" is about a kidnapped girl whos father tracks her down, similar to Help. "Hostel" focuses more on the darker side of our film and obviously Help will not be as graphic. In Hostel a group of friends are kidnapped and try to escape from the place were there being kept, this is the situation Fiona is in toward the end of our movie.

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