To help define our trailer as the Horror genre we will have to closely look at and use the conventions of a typical horror as well as adding our own. Most horrors follow these conventions which found in my research to the conventions of a "Typical Horror"
- Dark/shadowy lighting
- Isolated location
- Female victim
- Disruption of normality
- Sub plot of male/female relationship
- Defeat of monster
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