Some More Inspiration... 

    So the biggest issue we have been having lately has been deciding how far we want to go in either direction with our movie genre. On one end of the spectrum is a more serious tone, like a real scary movie, and on the other end is a more playful, silly tone... similar to "Scary Movie." According to IMDB, "Scary Movie" is just a comedy. The movie mostly parodies the move "Scream" and the horror genre in general, along with some aspects of society. Although this appealed to many audiences, it is not what we are going for and would not really fit what we want to do with our movie. Although we would like to include some funny moments, especially to lighten the mood and to add to the satirical element of the movie, we would only like to include elements in different parts of the movie, not like the comedic elements are used throughout "Scary Movie." This allows us to narrow the scope a little bit on what exactly we are going for.

(Clip form "Scary Movie," pulled from YouTube, that shows just how crazy the comedic elements in the movie are)

    On the other end are real horror movies. To contrast the elements of "Scary Movie" and a real horror film, I will once again reference "Scream," this time to express some real differences between the comedic parody and the serious horror film. According to IMDB, "Scream" is listed as a true horror film. The film lacks many of the comedic elements of its parody counter part. You know what, more like ALL of the comedic elements... The film attempts to express true darkness and create a sense of fear, which is established in the intro of the movie. But this is also something that we decided was too much. We feel that we would not be able to portray what we want if the movie is too serious and we also feel that in order to fully understand who our characters are going to be and what their environment will be, that we might need some comedic elements in the movie.

(A portion of the intro to "Scream" which establishes the fear and mystery that will be reoccurring throughout the rest of the movie, for YouTube)

(Paired with the intro of "Scary Movie"... they are much much different, from YouTube)

    We are still trying to find the right tone that we want to set in our movie intro, and throughout the movie, but a movie that Sebastian found gave us some inspiration about where exactly we wanted to be. In the movie, "Tragedy Girls," a mixture of humor and horror is used to portray negative effects of constant social media use, similar to what we want to do, but not exact. The use of some comedic elements in the clips that we have scene really made it easier to watch all of the other dark parts of the movie, and made it more bearable for the viewer. On top of making it more bearable for the viewer, it really takes some focus away  from the people dying and puts the focus on WHY the people are dying and makes it easier for the director to make the commentary intended. We feel that this is something we can use in our movie, especially since the theme is somewhat similar, and it provides a platform for us to work off of.

(Trailer from "Tragedy Girls" from YouTube)
 


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