Starting this all off, I began with refreshing myself on the genre conventions of the horror genre overall since we are getting into the time of the year where we really need to start focusing on our films. We already determined that our setting will mainly be in a bathroom, since the murders that the whole plot would focus on all take place in bathrooms. We need dark lighting in order to convey that dark and scary effect throughout the sequence. My group collectively decided that our location will be at someone’s house. This is because we do not have the resources to develop a set, so a bathroom of ours can be utilized. The main conventions we need to focus on will need to focus on in building the suspension that would continue into the full movie. We are more than likely to be appealing to people around the ages of 18-30, since 60% of the horror genre audience consists of that age range. We are playing off of the fear of murder and darkness— the context of the murders are going to help to set the tone of the whole introduction.
Since we are only making a short portion of the film, one horror element we will really have to focus on is suspense. One aspect I think we can utilize is giving a slow, methodological pacing to our shots to build authentic suspense, not "cheap" suspense. Although we can't do super long shots because of our time restriction, we can definitely have some important clips that are longer than others, in order to build up some tension for the whole duration.
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