The genre of our film is Mystery Thriller; in order to develop new ideas and to understand this genre in depth we looked into different film trailers that related back to our own film and was of the same genre. An example of this is the film trailer above, Insomnia. This film is a mystery thriller that is about a detective that is investigating the murder of a teenage girl, however comes across problems of his own and eventually becomes unhinged. This film relates back to our own film Lost Obsession in several ways: The genre of both this film and our own is the same because both films consist of a mystery that is trying to be solved as well as twists and turns to shock the audience. They both fit this genre perfectly as both the mystery and thriller is balanced out to make the audience feel scared as well as interested and intreaged to find out the outcome.
Both films also focus on one main character that starts of as a good citizen but slowly turns into the opposite. In the film Insomnia, the main character is a detective who is trying to solve the murder of a teenage girl. At the beggining of this film he his a nice, genuine man that is just simply doing his job by trying to find/punish all the people that commit crimes. However as the stress kicks in, he 'accidently' kills his partner and lies to the police to cover up his tracks. From this point in the film things start to go down hill for the character as more innocent people are getting hurt because of the problems that the detective is causing. He eventually goes crazy because of the lack of sleep he his getting and the guilt that his taking over him and ends up becoming one of the bad people that he started off trying to find. This character is very similar to the main character in our film Tommy Wilson; the reason for this is because Tommy is a kind, down to earth boy who is simply trying to find out who murdered his mother and took her locket. Although, he also 'accidently' kills another person whilst trying to do this, which leads onto more murders as he gets tangled up in his own mess. Tommy gradually goes into a mental state (just like the detective in Insomnia) and ends up becoming a murderer himself instead of the victim.
Both of these films also concentrate on one issue that creates smaller problems throughout the film. For example, the film Insomnia is about the investigation of a teenagers death. However within this investigation more problems are caused, such as the death of the detectives partner and many more. In addition to this in our film Lost Obsession, the main issue that we want the audience to focus on his who murdered Tommy Wilsons mum and stole her locket. Although throughout this investigation more murders occur and twists and turns are revealed. 
By looking into this film Insomnia we have gotten more ideas for our own film and found new ways of filming which we can use when making the first 2 minutes of our film. It as also helped us to understand the genre better than we did before and helped us to realise how we can portray this when filming.