Genre Choice

For my Film Studies coursework, I have considered several genres. Horror, sci-fi, comedy and many more. I have even considered some kind of merging of two genres such as sci-fi horror, or a romantic comedy. Also the things I have had to consider are how to portray the genre, and which one would be possible to portray in a storyboard. And also I have had to consider budget, as I have limited money to work with in this project.

After much thought, I feel horror might be one of the best to work with.It is quite easy to represent horror through lighting, and while storyboarding, in the text accompanying the image I can talk about sound and how it might affect the scene. E.g a sharp, highpitched tone to signify something shocking.

The narrative tends to be similar in most horrors. The movie might start with people dying or some kind of teaser to the "monster" or basicly what a group of people will face. In most cases the group of people will be killed off one by one as the tension increases, until the climax where either the entity or monster will be deafeated, or it will be left at a point of no resolve where we are to imagine what happens. In most horrors there will be balence restored to the equilibrium however.

Also, in the majority of horrors, there will always be a character who isn't afraid of anything, a character who is paranoid, a character who always screams and a character who sets themself aside from the others, who normally tends to be the films protagonist.