Genre Research

The genre that we decided to do was an action/thriller/comedy hybrid.
There is a list of various comedy/thriller hybrids here.
Films like Hot Fuzz and Bad Boys are examples of action/comedy films.

Family Guy and Robot Chicken are examples of TV shows like this, albeit animated.
After watching these two shows(of similar creators[Seth green is the man behind Robot Chicken but also stars in Family Guy as Chris Griffin, and Seth Macfarlane will also take part in Robot Chicken at times e.g. P.S I love You S4EP1]) we noticed that random actions add good comedy effect e.g. Random man on fire come on screen screaming for a split second.
Having distorted physics also tends to make things more of a comedic value as well e.g. in Family Guy when people fall off something, they will hit the floor instantly, with a loud thud.

Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly - 2001
This film has a few elements we would like to take into our film.
The film is based around the main protagonist (Donnie Darko) seeing an invisible character, but is seen by him and no one else. This invisible character also has a disturbing/weird look to it which can cause unease in a way to the audience.
Camera shots in this film portray the attitude and atmosphere of the main protagonist very well which we feel would work rather well in our film as well.

A book we found that is useful for Genre Research is Film Genre Reader by Barry Keith Grant (ISBN -978-0-292-70185-4)

The idea for the mysterious blue man in the background of some shots came from the PC game Half Life/Half Life 2. In the game the character, called G-Man, is constantly seen in the background of scenes and then mysteriously disappearing again.