Genres I Would Like to Research

In the previous blogs, our group came to the conclusion about our pitch decision. We decided we want to pursue, "Friends go on a trip together and the world is suddenly shut down by a deadly virus. The virus is much more powerful than expected." However, a key aspect of the film we did not discuss amongst ourselves during this early planning period was the genre which we were going to center our film around. The selection of a genre is of uttermost performance as it will likely ease how the film's  purpose is conveyed to the audience. Additionally, genres have attached conventions, or codes, surrounding them, for example in the camera angles/shots, mis-en-scene, editing, and sound aspects respectively. With these "attached conventions" a director needs to choose whether or not they would like to follow or go against them. Overall, the selection of the genre is VERY important to our Final Task and such we need to make an appropriate decision. In more current deliberations we have decided upon the 3 following genres: action, horror, and thriller. Their loose definitions are as follows, cited from literaryterms.net:

Action Genre: A genre of film, TV, literature, etc., in which the
primary feature is the constant slam-bang of fights, chases,
explosions, and clever one-liners.

Horror Genre: is a genre of fiction whose purpose is to create
feelings of fear, dread, repulsion, and terror in the audience—in
other words, it develops an atmosphere of horror.
Thriller Genre: is a genre of literature, film, and television whose
primary feature is that it induces strong feelings of excitement,
anxiety, tension, suspense, fear, and other similar emotions in its
readers or viewers—in other words, media that thrills the audience.
Despite this reality, to ultimately make a decision regarding the genre selection, much research is going to need to be done. As stated previously, the conventions entailed to these selected genres is going to have a large impact on our films overall meaning. This includes, but is not limited to, the camera angles/movements, the sounds, the editing, and the mis-en-scene. It is important we get this right. Appropriately, we are going to do our homework and determine how these genres' individual conventions either match or reject our overall idea for the movie. From there we will have to make some serious
considerations and a judgement call.

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