Today, my partner, Paty, and I started discussing and researching different film genres and found this list to narrow down our ideas. We decided on doing something along the lines of horror, thriller, and suspense. Upon deeper investigation into the horror genre, we found this article explaining how horror movies started off with monsters and supernatural beings, but have since changed and now involve mostly people murdering other people, which honestly just makes them even creepier. Because we only have two minutes for our film opening, we have to be sure to establish a sense of horror within those two minutes. In order to ensure that the audience gets the idea of horror within the first two minutes, we have to make sure we include The Six Most Important Things That Make A Good Horror Film
We're running plot ideas by each other and trying to narrow it down, but we have almost too many good horror ideas. We want to make sure that our film isn't too cliche, but still follows the important conventions of the horror genre. Horror movies such as Scream, that start with the victim all alone in a place far from other people, are too cliche and predictable, so we want to create something that the audience will truly be shocked by. Tomorrow, we're hoping to brainstorm more and create a definitive plot and begin working on our storyboarding and creation process.
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