Genre Decision

After a short discussion, we decided to categorise the genre of our short film as a horror with the sub-genre of a thriller. This is because we are planning to use a mask for the antagonist which will be unrealistic such as a zombie, animal mask, skeleton, alien etc. Furthermore, some may class it as being realistic as it is possible for someone to buy this mask and stalk and murder a person. Therefore it is both a horror and thriller in one. However, we would not class it as any other type of horror due to the fact that we are not including any gory scenes showing a lot of blood and our main aim isn't to just frighten the audience. It is to also cause them to feel on edge and discomfort throughout as they are unaware of what events may occur. Another point we spoke about was that the horror thriller genre focus most on stalkers and serial killers more than any other type of horror would such as a horror focusing on murder and gore more than anything else. As stalkers and killers are what we plan on including, we have decided that it was the best option for our short film.