MAIN: Post 2: Choosing your genre

Task 1:

Most Popular genre in film

http://financialedge.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0410/Movie-Genres-With-The-Best-ROI.aspx

There are four main popular types of genre:

Action adventure is one of the most successful genres of film. It has record breaking ticket sales but the films also have big budgets which mean that because of the quality of film it brings in a lot of money.

Drama, Romance and Comedies- Romance films do not particularly have big budgets but they can bring in loads of money. But not all drama, romantic and comedy films are successful and there were loads that were box office failures.

Documentaries do not have a big budget and most of the film is put together by the film makers filming that they have done throughout their life.

Horrors and Thrillers can be very successful and bring in loads of money and example of this is Paranormal Activity which was only made for $15,000 and when it went into box office it made $161,830,890.

Task 2:
By looking at the different types of genre i have found that by doing an action adventure film would be alot of hard work  because it has a high budget and there are loads of special effects that are used to make this genre of film.

Also by doing a comedy film would be hard because you would have to get the right level of humour and try and appeal to the audiences sense of humour and this will be hard because not everyone has the same sense of humer and it would be hard to find that balance.

I think that drama would be a good genre for our opening sequence because there is a variety of different topics and things that could happen whereas, a romantic film it would be a typical 'boy meets girl' storyline.

I do think that a documentry would be a particularly good idea for the film sequence because you need to have a topic that is serious and in documentries they use their own footage of the paricular topic. I think this would not work well as we would not be able to get footage that is believable enough to show a serious topic.

Horrors and thrillers would be an interesting but hard genre to do because i think that there would have to be a lot of effort put into mise-en-scene in terms of costumes, make-up and also like lighting and setting because it would be hard to find somewhere that would look good and be believeable.

We got into our groups and we put together a questionnaire that we could ask different age ranges such as teenagers up to middle age and we did this to find out different views on what genre of film people liked best. We asked for them to choose their favourite genre of film and comedy came out with the highest total but they also said that they liked a mystery/ drama. We aslo asked them how many times they went to the cinema and gave them different options of, once a week, once a month, and another option for them to specify their answer. We asked who they mostly went to the cinema with and by asking this would tell us the age range of people going to watch these genres of film. The last question we asked was what genre of film would you like to see more of, and the most popular answer was mystery and dramas.