As my film is in the horror genre, I decided to use the woodlands as a good place to use as a setting. This is very like other horror films especially Friday the 13th (1980) as the woods are secluded and the killer can easily kill someone without anyone knowing. It also gives a sense of tension for the audience and the woods have always been a scary place, as you don't know who is watching you.
Like in Friday the 13th, we use many shots from the perspective of the killer to show that the character is being watched, so that it creates tension for the audience. I also used many wide shots to give the audience a sense of what surroundings they were watching the character in.
Near the end of the film I used some fast cuts which heightens the tension for the audience and helps to build the climax at the end of the scene, where the hooded person kills the boy.
To challenge the horror film conventions I decided to give the killer a change of clothing. This was to show and go against the normal convention, which is seen in the Halloween and Scream franchises. Michael Myers for example wears dark clothing and a mask to hide himself and Ghostface does also. However, for my killer I didn't want to make him create a mask, as it was typical of the genre. As many horror movie killers are remembered for their mask I needed my killers clothes to be memorable. I decided to give him a blue jumper, jeans and white trainers as it was very unique in the genre. The clothing is also typical of what a person between the age of 16-25 would wear.
Another horror convention that I developed was the fact that the killer kills someone in the first scene. Like in most horror films including Scream and Halloween do this. This means that the makers of the film want the audience to go straight into the film as the action has already started. Horror films need to start going from the very off and my film does that.
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