Research into our subgenre

Comedy HorrorWe chose to do comedy horror as we wanted to experiment

with both genres and combine the two for an outcome. Although we are doing a short film, we will look at trailers for this research as they contain the conventions we need to take

inspiration to make our short film.

What We Do In The Shadows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAZEWtyhpes Conventions:

• Set in a dark, haunted house• Main use of vampires- supernatural

creatures• Fangs and blood for the vampires• Start off with the horror and then they

introduce the comedy.• Over exaggeration of actions• All men which is typical- Not very smart

either.• Funny scenes which again exaggerate their

abilities as vampires.• Upbeat and jumpy score music.

Inspiration• The score music as it is fit for a comedy horror- not to scary and not too happy.• The title is in red which is a colour that represents horror, so we could use that.• The vampire trying to fit into normal life e.g the scene when they went clubbing.

Shaun Of The Deadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIfcaZ4pC-4 Conventions:

• Set in a home/town- familiar setting which is where modern horror movies are set

• Main use of zombies- supernatural creatures

• Blood and lots of makeup used for the zombies

• Starts with the monotony of everyday life, then things change- comedy starts straight away.

• costumes are everyday clothes for both zombies and humans- zombies clothes are all ripped, but still human clothes.

• News report on zombie apocalypse.

Inspiration• The fact that they use zombies because we want to focus on zombies so we can

take some things like their behavior.• Normal life gets turned upside down, so we might use that.• The blood and makeup is going to be used in our short film.