Actor and Genre Research

From my research blonde young girls are victimised in a lot of horror, thriller, or crime films.

It is a popular thing nowerdays, and the coulour of this innocent teenage girl's hair could

almost be a code to our genre. I researched that it is usually the beautiful and most

attractive blonde's that are victims of a tragic murder. Female victims are also very popular,

I think this is because they are more vunrable and tend to have less psychical power 

and less control. Also, the younger the less aware you are of the dangers around you, put

these together and there is your perfect victim. Young girls and women are very popular in horror/crimes.

The bright clothes respresent innocence and happiness, and contrast with the killer's. So therefore it's all about juxtapositioning them/ showing the different roles and personalities through Mis-en-scene which gives out the auidence our ideal genre.

From my research detectives are meant to look smart and neutral with a side of personality

and slight sofistication. In the less modern films, detectives seem to wear glasses and hats as

well as baggy trousers. But however, nowerdays the more popular Mis-en-scene for crime genres are suits,ties, coats and upper class businessy wear are used more frequently. Our job is to make sure the detectives stand out by far from the other characters, from the

bad and good, and make them seem although they're just doing their job. As you can see both

men come from different culural backgrounds. One is English, and the other is mixed race.

We thought this would be a good idea, rather than having two English white men.

It appears that the variety of ethnicity is important in films, as it shows the producer

isn't racist. From my research, the more cultural the film likely the more viewers. We got inspired by the movie "Men in black" this idea of two men from different cultures helping each other out and working

together.

The killer's identity is hidden behind his balaclava. We don't want the audience to see the face at the opening otherwise people will know who the killer is before the ending of the film, which makes it less exciting. For all the audience know, the killer could be one of the detectives, but we don't want them to know who it is as it's more fun for the audience to keep guessing. The killer's clothes contrast with the other character's clothing. The effect of the black clothes tell the audience that this is a bad character with a evil personality who does bad things. The black clothes tell us that the killer doesn't want to be seen during the night time, he wants to merge in with the dark so he doesn't get caught when murdering.