Research: My chosen genre

We have chosen to do a horror film. Within this it will contain the sub genre of psychological film because it will contain a human killer. We chose to do a horror film because we can use effective iconography and also the horror genre is very easy to identify and can easily keep an audience hooked after the first couple of minutes. Doing a horror film will also allow us to experiment with different aspects of the horror genre. E.g. we can use contrapuntal sounds and high and low key lighting. As you can see in the image below, the characters in our film will feel as though someone is 'messing with their head'. I feel that myself and my partner for this task will have accomplished our 'mission' if we can get the character to be portrayed as this