There are many different forms and conventions of the Horror sub-genre we are using. Basic conventions include blood, secluded areas, the dark, and death. These are included in the films "Bram Stoker's Dracula", "Let the Right One In", and "The Lost Boys." We used the research in to these conventions to help with the making of a horror film so we knew what different conventions we could use so that our film fit in to the sub-genre of vampire films. It is important to do this so that we know what sort of things are used to define a vampire film and keep it different from a psychological film for example.
In our horror film, we challenged the conventions to make our film different to films that have been made before. Some of our ideas we were influenced by the television program "Being Human"; the way that our vampire can go out in the sunlight. This challenges the convention that vampires burn in the sun, or as Twilight interpreted it; sparkle. Making our vampire able to go out in to the sun also made it easier to film and meant that we were able to do more with our characters and choice of location.
This is a picture of John Mitchell from BBC show "Being Human." Our character design is based on him and the fact he can go out in the daytime:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/being%20human%20mitchell/melancholySky/Mitchell-being-human-3972968-426-63.jpg?o=9
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