Deciding On A Sub-Genre.

My project partner and I sat down and talked about main horror sub categories, we came up with three and narrowed it down to one, of which suited us best.

Paranormal:

The biggest strength about this sub category would be that it is the most popular globally, examples of paranormal film include: The paranormal activity series, The conjuring/Annabelle series. They are all rated highly as horror films, showing success. Also very few actors are needed making the shoots convenient, usually paranormal films are addressed around a backstory and a new family being introduced all to find out they're being haunted. The only disadvantage we found with this subcategory is that the editing phase would be very difficult, however we feel that we can succeed with it.

Monster/Alien:

Monster/Alien films are more so focused on fantasy or another genre as opposed to horror, therefore falling in success when shown in horror films as they are not very popular especially at the current time period. This could be a positive thing due to there being a fairly large gap in the film market. Like paranormal few actors would be needed to shoot this film trailer making it somewhat convenient and less confusing. To undergo the task of using Monsters and aliens for our horror film could be a big risk due to the popularity of the category in recent times. Another big effect on why this project could fail would be the editing of Computer Generate Images (CGI) to make an enemy/monster this would be incredibly difficult to produce and therefore is an option we chose to avoid.

Clown/zombies:

A good reason to do this subcategory would be because it could be fairly easy to introduce an antagonist and equip them to look like a clown/zombie, this could make filming easier as well as the actor would be unknown. A further reason to do this category of film would be because of the popularity at this current time due to the new film release in cinemas called IT. The drawback for this category/subgenre would be making it our own, in the sense that a storyline is incredibly difficult to come up with and it would be hard to make our trailer unique.