Documenting on Influences of production

There were many reasons which influenced us to make the decision to choose horror as the genre for our film. Firstly, Abbie and I both enjoy watching horror films and so do many of our friends. Due to the fact we both have a keen interest in horror films it influenced us to choose horror as the genre for our film. Also because we often watch horror films we thought it would be fun to try and create some scary scenes just like the horror films we watch. At first we weren't entirely sure that we would be able to do a horror film because it seemed quite hard to create a scary atmosphere. However, after distributing a questionnaire around we had written, the results showed that the majority of the people wanted us to do a horror film. This influenced us to stick by our idea of the genre being horror. After watching more scenes from horror films we came across some extremely scary scenes. We then decided to use the ideas from the horror films we watched and use them in our film. We were influenced to use ideas from the horror films because they were really effective, especially with the scary music that went alongside the scene. So hopefully if we get some ideas from horror films we have watched then it will ensure that our horror film opening will also be scary but also effective for the audience.