Genre

I originally thought that our film was a simple straight forward thriller mystery film, but with more thought into it, it is in some respects a exploitation film as in the beginning it shows the weakness of the young and also women. It is conventional for women and young or elderly to be the weak ones in films, but Emma and I wanted to adapt these conventions to suit our style and also our target audience of 15-21 year olds (also aimed at a female dominated audience but, a film for both sexes). We decided that in the opening we would give the impression of this girl being weak but throughout the film she actually comes out on top and the elder male kidnapper actually comes out as the weak character. So Liv and I are overturning those teenage female character victim conventions. We are borrowing conventions from teen horrors, this is because as they have been done before we know that it has a chance of working but we're also taking a chance on adapting the thriller genre for our film. I would like to keep the same tense mood and atmosphere with those scary elements of mystery, but whilst adapting the genre I want to make it more realistic as if it was a real event so that the audience could really get into it and in some ways involved.