Within my group we did a mind map on which genre would be easier to achieve. We felt documentary wouldn't be in our forte as you would have to be incredibly accurate with what ever you are doing it about such as historical, the amount of propps for each scene and how they spoke. Adventure would be hard as well because where we are situated you couldn't really do it and there wouldn't be a lot of angle use, and if there were it would be very hard to do.
I wanted to do something along the lines of black comedy or horror containing comedy such as Shaun of the dead, but i felt doing the humour isn't something i can easily achieve and probably wouldn't end up being as funny as i thought it would. In the end we decided to do horror. I do believe horror is the easiest the achieve with all the camera shots to give the right effect and atmosphere, the use of pacing to show a build up to something. The use of music or sound could create a very tense scene.
At first with the camera angles it was going to be hand held camera like in Blair witch project and the clover field, but we felt it was very limiting and may not create the atmoshpere we would want it to. The first idea was the trailer would start off with a couple on a beach having a fun time, then it would jumpcut to a clip of people running through woods and screaming, then flash back again to the beach and the cheerful times within the clip, then it would finally jumpcut again to the running and the camera glances back only seeing shadows running after them. I really did feel this idea had potenial but we discussed further and felt and many trailers have done this and felt the effect probably would be as horrific as we would have hoped.
Our other idea was that the end of the film would be the first clip of the trailer and would be a girl in ripped clothing drenched in blood banging on a door screaming help, someone opens the door and asks 'what happened' the girl falls to the floor and looks up at the person and as she's about to speak it jump cuts to a slow pacing shot running in the woods, the pacing of the jumpcuts gradularly becomes faster and the scenes contain clips of them running, close-ups of scared facial expressions, then the last shot could be a close up of the eyes of the monster/killer.
The locations which we could film in - Beach - where the couples are having fun, woods - a typical scene where most movies take place, graveyard - obvious scary place as where the dead rests, oldtown - historic/distorted looking buildings helps give the eeriness of the film.
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