Our film is a typical horror film, we took influences from films such as scream and halloween, blair witch project, and more. When we were analysing them before we looked at the codes and conventions of them and similar horror films. We tried to include them in our opening sequence in order to get a similar scary and thrilling effect. We also found that these films are quite successful in cinemas and in general, scream was very successful as it has had 3 sequels and with a 4 due to be release soon. Due to this we thought it would be good to make a film that we knew would attract a range of audiences and be successful. Also in horror films there is usually a scary person or thing that is associated with the bad things that happen within the film; like Ghostface in scream, in our film it is the clown.
In scream we do not see Ghostface straight away, we hear him on the phone, this is also a main convention of horror films as it leaves the audience hooked as they want to keep watching in order to find out who the person who keeps phoning Casey is. However in 'Fun House' we see the clown straight away; we chose to do this as we thought it would allow the audience to see how scary he is and what damage he can do; we thought that is we were to show him straight away it would create more of a relationship with the audience as they would feel scared of what is going to happen to Chloe and Kayleigh who are portrayed to be vulnerable by the slight high angle shot which tells the audience that they dont have a lot of power in this situation.
There is only one social group represented in our opening sequence; it is young women, we have chosen to represent them as vulnerable which is not only stereotypical in society but is one of the main conventions of horror films, they are shown to be vulnerable by the fact that the clown corners them and they have no where to go suggesting that they are trapped in their own home.
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