Choosing a genre for our film opening was a harder task than expected. The media group wanted to do either horror or comedy, as they're the types of films our age group are more inclined to watch, and they would also be fun to make. Overall, the majority of the group opted for comedy as the genre of choice, but Mr Hood was sceptical of the decision and gave us a homework task to come up with one original joke. Unfortunately, no one had a 100% original joke, but some of the jokes told made some people laugh, whilst others (Mr Hood) failed to find them amusing. This proved that humour is subjective, and that a genre choice that we thought was 'easy' was actually quite hard to produce, and also in danger of alienating the audience. This made us all think harder about what genre would be easiest to do, and what the audience would be more inclined to watch and enjoy. We produced a mind map in the lesson of genre and sub-genres pros and cons:
We eventually came to the unanimous desicion that thriller was the best choice of genre, as it has simple conventions, would be fairly easy to produce, and would appeal to a wider audience.
As we have chosen the genre for the film opening, the next step is to explore and research that genre.
