The stereotype of the mystery genre is that someone is dies however it is left unknown who did the crime, or the film shows a murder taking place and the film involves the crime being solved. The suspects of the murder are usually a closed circle of suspects with each one of the suspects having a reason to of committed the murder, they would also be shown to have an opportunity in which they could have done the murder. The detective is going to be one of the main characters as they are always going to be questioning the suspects and trying to find more and more information out as the film goes on. Due to my film only being a short film I'm not going to have a detective as my film is not going to be long enough to have the crime take place and the solving of the crime.
Some mystery films may have a solution that do not make logical sense or does not have any crime involved due to supernatural or thriller being the reason for why the crime took place, which the detective is not going to be able to find a reasonable explanation for. This was common to take place in mystery films in 'pulp magazines' during the 1930s and 1940s, during these times there were titles like 'Dime Mystery', ' Thrilling Mystery' and 'Spicy Mystery' being created that were being described as 'weird menace' stories at the time. Those titles were contrasting with parallel titles of the same names which still has aspects on hardboiled crime fiction that were following all of the usual conventions. Mystery was first used by 'Dime Mystery', it started out as a typical crime fiction however it then changed to 'weird menace' during the later 1933s.
Mystery is a sub genre of more of the general category's of crime film, it can also sometimes be also be part of the thriller genre.
Can I suggest you explore twist endings and unusual narrative structures?
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