KILLER CLOWN

My main idea for my short film came from the huge phase of the "Killer clown" which took place around halloween. The trend began in America in the summer and slowly came over here in the UK. The trend focused on people dressing up in scary clown outfits and jumping out on people however in some cases this trend was taken too far and some people were threatened with weapons.

I wanted to look at this "killer clown" phase in my horror film as its surprising how we are typically more scared of things that are associated with our childhood and inoocence for example dolls,balloons and clowns. In my horror film I wanted to do this by having a child dress up as a cute clown which we see as innocent but then this child grows up and the clown is "psychotic".

In addition I wanted to relate my horror film to real life situations much like "Imom". It interests me how quickly trends are spreaded across countries which is mainly through social media. People start out these pranks as just funny jokes however in some cases they can develop too far and become very dangerous. 

By looking at this trend it helped me in coming up with the title of my horror film. "Clowning around" comes from the idea of how easily pranks can be taken too far even if it is just messing around.