The Genre We Chose for Our Film

 Just from our pitch, one could guess what genres our film would fit under.  There are obvious elements of horror and thriller.  There are also broader elements of drama that one could connect to our pitch.  while we plan to include each of the genres into our film, we want to focus mostly on just one.  That one genre is horror.  Initially, we were thinking of making it drama instead but, we wanted to focus more on horror.  We felt this because the horror genre is much less broad than the drama genre.  We also feel that too many movies are put under the drama genre and we would like to diverge from all of them.  Our short film introduction we did last year was a drama film.  But, it had elements of horror as well.  The biggest difference in the writing of horror movies versus drama movies is the character development. Horror Movies tend to have less character development.  Drama movies tend to have more character development.  That will be the main difference between this film, and the film shot last year by other members of my group.  Last year, they put a lot of time into developing the setting and the interpersonal conflicts.  But, this year, we hope to save more screen time for action sequences and thrilling scenes.  We will accomplish this by cutting down on the dialogue and setting shots.  I look forward to making the film horror especially because I like the horror genre.  While I also like the drama genre, I think it is far to broad to be the main genre of a film.  I also like specific camera techniques used in horror movies and I would like to implement them in our film.  For example, frequent close up shots.