For our genre we decided on a psychological horror, this is because we wanted to build up tension through inferring that there is something there (a monster/ spirit) therefore I did some research into films existing under this genre.
The first few films i looked at were "case 39" and "Insidious". Case 39 is based around a child that came from a troubled home where the parents appeared to be neglecting and abusing her. As a result of this a woman from social services takes her under her care and allowed her to live with her to keep her safe. However as the story unfolds we learn that the young girl is a demon and is the one causing the trouble.
Insidious is a story of a family searching for help for their son who fell into a coma after a mysterious accident in the attic. Further into the film we can understand that the young child has been taken over by a demon.
By looking at these and others there was a clear similarity, they both involved children. I also paired this to my own personal scares within a horror and i think young children have a huge impact in a scary film.
I then looked at scenes involving children to see what the main stereotype of a child horror character is so i was able to select my actors. For this i looked at the opening scene of 'The Woman In Black'.
From this i was able to see that the stereotype was a young girl, pale in skin with long blonde hair. The hair is down with a bow tied in and the girls in the video are in grubby dresses.
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