Analysing Potential Film Genres

To help us choose the genre of the film opening Rhiannon and I are going to create, we decided to list the pros and cons of different ones. This helped us identify what genre would allow us to make the best film opening we can.

Potential genre:

Horror

Pros:

- easy to find a suitable set

- doesn't involve a lot of dialogue

- can include a lot of codes and conventions

- shoot on location

- easily accessible music 

Cons:

- hard to find suitable actors/actresses

- difficult to make it dramatic

- hard to access camera angles

Comedy

Pros:

- shoot on location

- props are easy to acquire

Cons:

- hard to make it humorous

- hard to find suitable actors/actresses

- hard to get suitable music

Social-Realism

Pros:

- shoot on location

- wide range of locations to shoot on

- realistic mise-en-scene

Cons:

- hard to get suitable actors/actresses

- music will be hard to find

- hard to think of an original idea