Further Benifits and Constraints of the Horror Genre

What are the benefits & constraints of choosing the horror genre?
Benefits:

• We can use light to our advantage in most cases. Natural Lighting and Daylight as seen last year in our media opening can work just as well as darkness and extra lighting.
• Also as we thought about handheld camera idea, pitch black would be necessary to get the night mood to work. So we could use pitch black to our advantage.
• Very low budget, and can be made without spending any money at all, and we found this last year.
• So much to work with as far as edits and sounds go. Horror you can use so much variety of sound effects , or minimal dialogue – and it still have the impact and be scary.

 Constraints:

• Vast sub genres of horror and defining certain types into a trailer can be a problem if we don’t capture exact codes and conventions of the sub genre- for instance psychological could go wrong if it isn’t actually that thought provoking about what we said it would be for.

J.G & W.H