Our chosen genre was a horror/drama, we researched the generic conventions of a horror/drama. Our setting is at a horse stable which is small, isolated, near the countryside and is surrounded by narrow alleyways which is the perfect setting to use a generic convention of a horror setting. For the colours, we used dark backgrounds on our titles and credits and used our shots of the victim dead on the floor to correspond with the use of the red for blood and death. Our narrative structure involves death and a damsel in distress which uses the generic conventions. We chose not to use any weapons in out opening to keep the audience in suspense as to how the killer is murdering their victims. We used a young girl as the victim in our film as this is also the generic convention of a horror/drama as female are usually portrayed as being helpless and an easy target. The way in which we challenged the generic conventions of a horror/drama is by using a female character as the murderer as we nearly always see a strong male lead as the murderer. During our research task, we watched the opening to the film 'The Devil's Backbone' and realised that the film used some sort of poem being read out during, we then decided to use this in our film opening to add tension.
