Blog One: Explain which brief you have decided on and give clear reasons why. Give some detail on the genre or sub genre you haven chosen too.

I have decided to do a film trailer. The reason why I decided to do a film trailer is because I want to stem my ideas into a psychological horror. Psychological horrors are both thrilling and engaging. They manipulate your mind just from a trailer and this is what we aim to do. The horror genre has been frightening audiences for over 100 years. Most would say the first horror film ever made was "Le Manoir du Diable" or "The House of the Devil" which was filmed by Georges Melies of France in 1896.  Charlie Chaplin made a series of short films in the 1920s with one of the most famous being 'The Immigrant'. My aim is to produce a psychological horror.

A lot of horror films now tend to play on the fact of being 'real' with props such as handheld cameras and locations. Films such as paranormal activity play on this sub genre which attracts a mass audience. This is the aim of our film trailer to attract a mass audience since I think horror as genre attracts a mass audience.

Things to decide on when choosing a genre:
Consider your target audience. Are you going to want to attract a mass or niche audience? If so consider which genres attract different target audiences e.g. Comedy = Mass.
Content of the genre
Deciding an idea which either fits conventions of the genre or goes against them. Some film makers decide they are going to go against stereotypical conventions which makes the film more unique/ weird. It puzzles the audience into going against the stereotypical film.
What genre you like the most
Which genre are you going to decide on could depend on which one interests you the most! horror is one of my favourite  genres because I like to challenge my fears and the experience of going to the cinema in the dark adds to the atmosphere.
Research into my genre 
The first handheld horror film (Using handheld camera)
* Peeping Tom - is about a young man who murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. Peeping tom is one of the first handheld horrors to be made. The film was mainly influenced by the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo, although vertigo was much more commercial because of its lack of gore and distribution.
*Paranormal Activity - This film centres on a young couple Katie and Micah who are haunted by a supernatural presence in their home. It is presented in the style of 'found footage' from a camera set up by the couple in attempt to photograph what is haunting them. This then goes on as a sequel with a constant theme running through.