Genre Research

For our opening sequence, we have chosen horror and in order to do this it must be rated either 15 or 18. Rating the scene 15 would limit us to what content we could include. Whereas if it were an 18 then we have a much broader spectrum as to what we can show. I think we will rate our scene an 18 as it means that we can use more realistic props which means that we can base shots around them. In turn this could increase our grade by having a wider variety of shots. There are a lot of good horror films which are rated 18 such as Nightmare on Elm Street and The original Amityville horror. But that is not to say that 15 rated horrors are bad. The body which rates films and games are called the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) They state that 18 rated films are more sexually explicit and violent. They rate films 18 so as to protect children with impressionable minds from violence. Our horror is not gory but is more of a thriller and our ideas have been inspired by other films such as: The Others, Heart Of Darkness and Jeopardy. We have chosen to do thriller as we feel they have a greater effect on the viewer. Thrillers allow the mind to fill in the blanks, whereas slashers leave little to the imagination as there is no subtlety. In our film the killer is never shown as all of its shots are first person. We got this idea from films such as The zodiac Killer. As horror can be such a broad genre we feel we have chosen the correct aspect of it.