Research on Genre

The genre we are portraying is horror/slasher, wikipedia's definition of a horror film is 'movies that strive to elicit emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers'. Horror is extremely popular with people aged 15-30 of both sex's, this is because this age group likes to have a good time and live life on the edge, there is a sense that they like to prove themselves and show they are not weak, so horror/slasher films are a good way to prove this.

Films of the horror genre use alot of different themes to make the film more scary, these include

• mentally ill male capturers
• female victims
• sex slaves
• imprisonment in dark places
• blood and goar
• kidnapping

Our film sequence will include all 6 of these themes. we will have an OCD capturer, we will have a young pretty female victim who will be held against her will as a sex slave, and we will tie her up and put fake blood on her to show that some sort of violence has been shown towards her.

There will be a dungeon/captivity scene in our opening sequence where one or more girls who will be tied up as a sex slave.The theme of dungeons is portrayed in many horror films, it is a favourite with producers as it catches on to the female victim and male capturer.

We have taken some ideas from the popular horror 'Silence of the lambs', in this horror a freaky, mentally disturbed man kidnapps a young female and imprisons hers. Which has simularities to our film idea.In silence of the Lambs the male capturer is mentally disturbed, in our film idea we have selected a mentally ill man to be the kidnapper. This capturer has a strong relationship with the pet dog, we have also decided to show a relationship like this also choosing a dog.

Another horror film that focuses on the female victim is 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' This film is about a family who kidnapps a young lady, women are usually used as they are thought to be more 'helpless' and need protecting. In this clip you can see the woman is gagged and tied up, this will be simular to the Mes En scene for our film.

In this clip there are odd things that the males capturers do, they choose to eat at the table with the woman, this is an odd thing to do as she has been kidnapped by them, so why would she want to sit down at the table with them? This technique is comonly used in horrors, the odd rituals that happen make the film alot more spooky, with have taken ideas from the scirpt of this film. we have decided that the man will talk to the tied up girl like they are husband and wife, saying things like 'honey im home' and 'have you had a nice day today?', these lines and the whole attitude that he feels he treats the girl well will make the opening sequence alot scarrier.