MAIN: Post 4: Group Meeting

We held a meeting within our group and we discussed what genre would be the best idea for our opening title sequence. We have all agreed in the fact that comedy would be a hard genre to do because it will be hard to find the balance of the humour and you will have to find out the sense of humour your target audience has and try to appeal to them. We have also said that horror is not a good idea because it will be really hard to make this genre work well. We all agreed that the best genres would be drama or a mystery. This is how our group discussion went: 

Lauren: From looking at the research we conducted, Rom-Coms, Dramas and mysteries come out on top.
Charley: I think we should do a drama with a twist of mystery, as I think comedies will be too difficault for the timing we have, and are also hard to appeal to a large audience as humours vary.
Lauren: I agree, I think it would be a good ide...a to shot a mystery drama with a variety of clever shot sizes.
George: Yeah these are all good ideas, I think we should consider basing the plot around a kidnapping of some sort in order to match our genre.
Charley: Yes, that’s a good idea George. We should try and film something that will not only grip viewers through interest, but also to teach people the importance of staying safe while outside of home.
Lauren: We could have a kidnapping of school children? I think using a hand held camera would look really effective on a mystery drama like this one.
George: Yes, we could shoot pupils leaving at the end of the day, perhaps Charley and Lauren could act as the girls that are going to be abducted.
Charley: These are great ideas! By using the school as a focus point on location, the filming will be quite easy for us. We should use an interesting effect on the camera to generate the right tone and impression of the overall genre of our opening sequence.
Lauren: Another idea we could discuss is if we are using a hand held camera, we could have the kidnapper as the narrator in the way that what the viewers see is through his eyes, in order for the audience to feel included.
Charley: We could do a 'double take' from the crowds of school children, back to Lauren and me, as when the kidnapper realises we are the ones he is after.
Lauren: Yes, the variety of shot sizes and fast pace editing between shots will generate the excitement.
George: We should also use a creative typographt on our titles to link the genre of the opening sequence. We also need to consider the music we are going to use, it must have a sense of mystery and drama to it.