Why did we choose horror?

Personally I am not a very big fan of the horror genre, much of it is too intense for my preference, but all together my group liked the idea that would could go in many different directions with it. Whether it be opening with murder scenes or in happy suburbia, as a whole the genre is very easily manipulated in order to create the intentions of different films. That being said I am very excited to see where we can take this film in all aspects such as plot, characters, and overall what is going to make it a horror film. Will it be a monster? If it is will it be real or imagined? If not, what is going to be so scary about it? All of these are questions that we are going to take into consideration when we develop our storyboard and film.

What genre are we planning on emulating?

    Ultimately we agreed to create a film introduction based off of the horror genre, by doing so my groupmates and I need to research and analyze the basic conventions of a horror film. To begin our research each group member selected 2-3 films to view and analyze, Tessa chose Get Out (Peele, 2017) and Truth or Dare (Simon, 2017), Nova chose Paranormal Activity (Peli, 2007), The Blair Witch Project (Myrick & Sanchez, 1999) and I Trapped the Devil (Lobo, 2019), while I selected It Follows (Mitchell, 2014), The Invitation (Kasuma, 2015), and Unfriended (Gabriadze, 2014). Each of these films demonstrates vital elements of a horror film that we all need to be aware of in order to properly create our film and an intended meaning behind it. Especially when we are making a film on such a low budget it is important to note that each of the films we chose was a low budget independent film that later gained important popularity. We really wanted to have the feeling of a ritual gone wrong/ found footage so it was important to understand all of our potential options when we are designing how we wanted our film introduction to look.