Genre selection

Genre

With the new project established, we have thoroughly discussed the following:

Genre, target audience and representations within the trailer.

The proposed genre of the film was speculated as a gangster/violent crime story, we further developed that in order to direct our traffic towards other audiences. Such as including varying audiences with different tastes.

Suggestions that were made were to change the subject of the film with a tad bit of romance for which most of us disagreed with this idea due to the difficulties of trying to create love within a gritty trailer. Romance was also denied due to our disinterests as well as the lack of expertise within romance.

The idea of creating a substance filled with action and stunts were looked into to which we all agreed to perform tricks (Opposing health and safety at times). But this was initially what we needed in order to create a realistic scenery and turn a weak camera shot into one that had realistic amateur perspective.

Looking at comedy, we had all seen the famous Rush Hour films to which revolved around various gritty plotlines and inside jokes. We valued the comedic relationship to an extent of actually creating that substance.

However, in the end we all knew that with a lack of props and the combination of a low budget that we could not succeed into creating a scene with good prospects as it would of ended up as too amateur for the audience. Realism was the ideal objective that we had to achieve and thus comedy was not on our list anymore.

Violence and gore-ish murdering themes were suggested by my group member Abdul Basit with the example of the movie ‘American Psycho’. Again, with the time constraint and lack of props, we cannot embed such a

We also knew that the editing programs we had could not support that composition as it did not had that effect within (Windows Movie Maker and IMovie maker)

Since we all established that the main plotline is the crime genre, it was obvious that fantasy and adventure was out of the context. Embedding fantasy type styles within our trailer would create a strange scenario to which would seem peculiar to the audience (Although it could create curiosity to which may seem like an advantage). But in reality, it is initially difficult to combine the two genre together.

(We also took note that creating CGI, computer animated graphics was impossible at this stage as we knew the amount of effort and hardship that would consume the other factors within the trailer).

In the end, mystery was the only combination that connected easily within our structure of the film trailer. We had to make up for that curiosity from a different factor and this was initially our answer. With mystery, we could involve various oddity within the film to which should give the audience something to grasp hold off.