Planning - sub-genre mood board

Our sub-genre

Through researching various hybrid sub-genres and analysing the opening to thriller films in particular, we have come to the conclusion that we are going to have horror as out sub-genre. Both genres share very similar conventions which is why we feel that it would be good to converge them together. Equally we feel that as both the genres have the same camera angles that are conventional, we will be able to use these in our film to fit the repertoire of elements associated with thriller and horror films.

Like the conventions of thriller, horror films are stereotypically set in isolated settings where there are no places to run and find help; this is something that we can incorporate into our film opening. Colours used are dark colours like black and red as these connote danger and death, which is similar to the thriller genre. By combining the two genres we can merge all the conventions into one and provide

I have created a mood board that includes some of the stereotypical conventions of both the horror and thriller genre, as well as including some of the ideas that we have that we can incorporate into our film opening.