Creative Critical Reflection Draft (CCR) Part 1

Throughout our film, we highlighted many social groups and interests. We also challenged many of the traditional conventions of horror films but encompass the many 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, and revulsion and terror of the unknown. In the production of our film, we tried to create an 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 stereotypically goes straight into a trap. To avoid this, we casted a younger character, profiting on their innocence and lack of awareness. This allowed 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.

Moreover, our film represented the crisis of child abduction in society, and how it goes unnoticed. According to the FBI, in 2017 there were 464,324 NCIC entries for missing children. Similarly, in 2016, the total number of missing children entries into NCIC was 465,676. In our film we highlight how many children go missing and little id one to stop it. For example, in our film, our missing posters are posted in a local high school, but they are largely ignored by the high-schoolers in our movie, suggesting that society views abductions as inevitable. Overall, our film shows how abduction is being ignored by society rather than addressed and stopped.

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