Genre Conventions-Final Decisions

For our costumes, we have decided to go really over the top and exaggerated with our costumes because of our comedy horror genre. For example in Scary movie the killers costume is very over the top with a black cloak and a scary mask . At the beginning of the film the Heroine would be very vein and a girly girl with make up and nice clothing as the only thing she really cares about is her looks, but towards the end of the film she realises that she must put others first because their lives are in danger. The geek would wear something like a checkered shirt and glasses to signify his type of character. The Innocent one who turns out to be the geeks friend would act very childish and during the film opening he experiments with womens clothing when he incidently becomes the first victim. And the helper would wear something similar to the friend.



Lighting in our film will be very important but because of where we are setting which will be in the woods, we imagine that it will be quite dark when filming because we want to create that scary effect on the audeince to get them excited, it will also create alot of mystery and make the audience feel a little scared, but the lights from around the camping site should help bring contrast to where the good and evil take place. Lighting will will help because shadows that will fall on the villains face will also help make the audience convinced that he is defiantly the villianin this film. The shadows created by the moving tree branches, will help as this will also show that it’s a very dark and broody place where we are and there isn't much that going to be surrounding us. Also the lighting is usually low key and very dark, and the contrast will be used to over exaggerate shadows.

Props is another very important area for our film as we are doing a comedy horror,we have to use a prop that will amuse the audience but also a prop can do some damage to the victim. For example when the killer attempts to murder his first victim,he will use a banana as this isn't dangerous weapon but it makes the comedy elements of our film show even more, as no one will believe that someone will be killed with a banana.

Mis - En - Scene is actually very easy for us to accomplish due to our location of our film, the wooded area gives us the scary mysterious setting we need to achieve our theme and genre goals. Due to us setting the film at night the dark shadowy trees will reflect the moonlight creating a mysterious effect through the trees and focus all attention on the lights around the camp site. this creates the focus on the campsite but remains that the area that is in darkness is the most scaryest part of the setting.