The Use of Conventions

Throughout our film, we highlighted many social groups and interests. We also challenged many of the traditional convections of horror films but encompasses in many of the building blocks of horror.

            A horror film is a movie that seeks to excite a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat using fear and shocking one's audiences. Horror films often aim to evoke viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions, and terror of the unknown. In the production of our film, we tried to create of eerie mood and add suspense to an unknown horror, following the traditional convention. However, we tried to refrain from highlighting an unintelligent main character, who ironically goes straight into a trap. To avoid this, we casted a younger cast, profiting on their innocence and lack of awareness. This allows the film to become a more realistic horror. We followed the conventions with the eerie music and lack of dialogue, creating a scary mood throughout the film.

            Our film represents the younger generation, as a social group, and attempts to appeal to a teenager audience. We attempted to make a more exciting and subtle horror film, targeting a younger audience. We refrained from showing too gruesome aspects to allow the film to accessible to a larger audience. Moreover, we kept a high pace throughout the film, to further appeal to a younger social group, as high energy in more common in younger generations. Lastly, we tried to make the story line simple, to keep the attention of our viewers, as our chosen social group tends to have a shorter attention span.

 Overall, we did not challenge many convections, but the few we did adding to our social group appeal, and overall uniqueness in the horror film genre.