Monday, 30 March 2009

The brief

As we both enjoy and have a good understanding of the horror genre, we chose to make the opening sequence of a horror/thriller film. Generic conventions of this genre often include a single/group of antagonist(s) who cause disruption to the protagonists, often through violence or intimidation. The antagonist(s) normally have the trademark weapon or feature, for example in the "Scream" trilogy the killer wears a white mask and uses a knife as his feature weapon. There is sometimes a connection between the protagonist and antagonist, for example again in "Scream" the killer in the first film was the main protagonist, Sidney's, boyfriend. Other conventions of this genre are isolation, a sharp object for murder, blood, darkness and a killer that is extremely difficult to overcome - all of these are featured in "Wrong Turn"

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