Initial Ideas on Genre

Something we came across when brainstorming our initial ideas was that we had to choose a genre for our film opening. This genre had to be well suited to the content ideas we came up with as well as the fact it had to be something we are able to use with there only being four of us. In addition it had to be the genre that best suited our group's preferences. 

Here is a brainstorm of our thoughts on the possible genres we could choose from:

Comedy

• Can work as a low cost production.
• Could potentially appeal to larger audiences; both younger and older audiences.
• There isn't a conventional comedy location so would be easier to choose a place to shoot.

• Wouldn't be everyone's comedic taste so may receive negative feedback. 
• Can be very unrealistic.
•  If it's not truly funny then it won't work so very risky but could also result in confusion if too much humour.

Action

• The depth of the storyline can stay quite brief as they don't tend to have the most complex or elaborate plots.
• It allows flexibility regarding film locations as there are no traditional action film locations, e.g. a haunted house- horror. 
• Can allow creativity with mise en scene.

• Very hard to keep the plot original.
• There can be a heavy usage of props in traditional action sequences. 
• Many action films rely on special effects and CGI resulting it generally being a high cost production.

Horror

• Can allow creativity with mise en scene. 
• The storyline can be simple and straightforward, it doesn't have to be complex. 
• Can work as a low cost production. 

• Hard to perfect and if done badly it can look terrible.
• Mise en scene, such as blood, has to seem realistic if used, which requires skill and equipment.
• The editing within horror films generally involves fast, jumpy shots, so lots of footage needs to be taken in order to select the best footage possible.

After much deliberation, we came to a conclusion that horror would be the best genre to show our capabilities. Nevertheless, an initial idea we came across when discussing subgenres was that we should do something both intense and attention-grabbing thus we brought the many possible subgenre solutions down to two; psychological and possession. However, before we cancelled it down to two possibilities we had the idea of basing the film opening on the zombie subgenre as we thought it would be both fun to do and it would allow us to be creative. In the end we decided that it may be too hard for the opening to look convincing and realistic which are two important factors.