Recently I’ve been watching horror films non stop. I can’t say they are good one’s, but to fit the Halloween season they seem to be the cool thing to watch on a weekday evening. I’ve come to understand that nearly all of these films are unsuccessful in either keeping my attention or scaring me. Being a film student we tend to look at movies in a completely different light, but I think all viewers can understand the low brow style of recent ‘scary movies’. I’ve really wanted to develop a strong protagonist. Someone who can really connect with the viewer, be relatable, and most importantly realistic. There’s a huge stigma with horror films that the protagonists reaction to the situation is always unnatural and they do things that no right minded person would do. I understand for narrative sake characters need to perform specific actions to move the story onward, but in my experience I find the realism of a situation to be much more captivating for me at least. I’ve got a perfect male lead in mind who relates to some of my favorite horror protagonists in many ways. Secondly I’ve been discussing with my acting graduate roommate the styles and tones that make a successful horror film for weeks now. I’ve got loads of notes and tidbits of info to add to these next blogs from my film notepad and I look forward to turning this personal project into something much larger and hopefully develop a nice script from it.