Murder Mystery
After discussing with my crew, we decided that a Murder-Mystery genre will be the best idea for our film. Murder-Mysteries have many aspects found in horror such as the focus on the dead body, and the thriller aspects towards it.
The Art of the Murder Mystery Twist with Anthony Horowitz
The aspects of Murder-Mystery
Twists
A twist is the reverse of expectations. This happens when the film leads the audience down a certain way making them believe that something is happening, when all of a sudden everything is changed. All of the rules are different this makes the audience know that the whole time while watching the film they had been seeing things all wrong. However, twists are not always needed as forcing a twist into a film won't work, as the twist has to feel natural (as if it was always going to lead to it even if you as the audience did not know it yet). The reveal of the murderer most times is not considered a twist. But the way to make it a twist is spinning the nature of the murder changes maybe they were not in power, but they gain it switching places with the "rich person/person in charge", but then it leads to the murder does it but at the same time maybe they did not. The way to feed into this is by giving out visual (or implied) clues, ways the different character behaves, with the director's knowledge as we know what is going on. The director always knows more than the audience allowing for us to play with them to make the film seem like it's going in one way but actually it could be going in a completely different way.
For twists audience should feel a bit bamboozled at the reveal of who the murder is, but at the same time they should feel like they could've figured it out had they looked at clues more closely. Gives them a feeling of "how did I not guess that?"
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