Firstly when researching genre I looked at the Horror and Thriller genres. I wanted to clarify the similarities and differences between them, so when our group is doing our two minute opening sequence we know exactly what to focus on. I found out that Thriller films are made mostly to create suspense, excitement, tension and create enigmas within the audience. They tend to catch the audience’s attention and really get them to think about what exactly the film is trying to convey. Most thrillers have cliff-hangers which keeps the audience reeling to know what happens next as the story builds towards the climax. Characters in Thrillers are usually left in difficult positions almost leading to death which raises enigmas in the audience about what will happen next.
The Thriller genre has sub-genres and some of these sub-genres have some aspects of other genres. Here are the sub-genres listed below:
· Conspiracy thriller
· Crime thriller
· Disaster thriller
· Erotic thriller
· Legal thriller
· Medical thriller
· Mystery thriller
· Political thriller
· Psychological thriller
· Religious thriller
· Techno thriller
All of these sub-genres tend to raise the audience’s expectations and elicit their attention. One example of one common Thriller is ‘The Dark Knight’. Three characters are forced to deal with the chaos unleashed by an anarchist mastermind known only as the Joker, as he drives each of them to their limits. 
Now when looking at Horror I can see that these are made to create terror, repulsion and also like Thrillers enigmas throughout the audience. Horror films are typically associated with goriness, ghosts, blood and putting an extreme amount of fear into the viewer. We see a lot of ‘good versus evil’ in horrors as the antagonist mostly wants to kill the protagonist, in some case for no apparent reason. One example of a famous Horror is ‘Saw’. With a dead body laying between two men they wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw" by the police because of his unusual calling card. Just from researching into both genres I gather that they overlap, but the Thriller genre would be better for our coursework as there are many technical and symbolic features that we could use in our opening sequence and overall this would get the audience’s attention.
