1) The author decided to make a horror movie and researched horror conventions like killers, victims, locations and styles. Houses and serial killers most appealed to them. 2) They analyzed the opening of Resident Evil for ideas and watched the titles of Pacific Rim to determine where to place their own titles. 3) A survey found serial killers were not the scariest convention, so the author decided to use serial killers to be different from the majority.

1. Draft for question 1
I decided to go with the horror genre for my movie as I felt it would be best for
me. To begin with I did some research to look into different conventions of
horror such as killers, victims, locations and different styles of horror. The things
that appealed to me most were houses for a location and serial killers.
After that I analysed the opening sequence to the film resident evil to get ideas
on how set out my film opening.

2. To get an idea of where to put my titles I watched a title sequence of Pacific Rim.
This helped me a lot as I now had an idea as to where I put my titles. I followed
this as much as I could when it came to creating my own movie however as I was
working on my own I had limited actors but the titles were where I felt they
should be.
After this I did a survey to find out what conventions of horror people preferred.
As the majority of people did not pick serial killers as the scariest I decided to be
different and go with the idea of serial killers.
The research had quite a big impact on my movie; I took the ideas of cereal
killers and I took the location of a house. My research of title sequences helped
my figure out where to put my titles and how to arrange them in order. Of
importance.
I feel that I have not been unconventional in any way, however there is a part
were the victim attempts to fight back. Although this is common in most horror
films I feel that it is uncommon for the victim to overpower the killer but still
manage to get killed.