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Wednesday 23 February 2011

Choice of Genre

There are many genres which i could have chosen to use for my trailer however i can only use the one therefore i evaluated the ones which i like and then chose the one which i felt would be most appropriate for me to use. The genres which i preffered were:
  • Horror
  • Action
  • Comedy


These would be the three most typical film genres that would be used therefore i found examples for each and identified ways i could use them or couldnt.


Firstly the horror genre, now my favourite horror film is friday the 13th so i chose to study this one, therefore i got the trailer from youtube and looked over it to make sure i knew it well and how i could film it.


With this film it is hard to carry out the same graphics and the fire which goes on however i used the conventions and similarities to analyse whether or not i could do a film like this, i felt that i would be able to carry out a horror film as the conventions are typically darkness gore blood. These can easily be portrayed but may be hard to portray them well.


The next genre is action now this is typically car chases or lots of fighting so at first thoughts i felt i may not be able to film it however i looked at the trailer of the new A team to see how its set out and wether or not i would be able to do it.



When looking at the trailer i felt i would not have resources to film a trailer like this for example the police chase would be hard to incorporate or any chase for that matter this therefore dented the chances of making a film like this, also the use of guns would be hard to film and hard to make look realistic therefore the chances of carrying out an action film were not at all great.

The third genre i have chose is comedy now for this i looked at The Grown Ups this is one of latest comedy films and felt it would be a good film to evaluate.



Comedy is very hard to copy as it is hard to translate the comedy to the audience therefore i felt it would be hard to portray the comedy well, so i evaluated grown ups and felt the way they portrayed comedy was ingenius and the actors were of such good quality that they brought the comedy to the audience very well so therefore i felt it was not possible to carry out comedy and would have to be one of the other genres.

Therefore by looking at all 3 genres i assesed that it would be difficult to make a successful comedy trailer as you would have to create peices of comedy in such a small time which can be hard for an amateur production, also for the action genre i felt it would be hard to incorporate the car chases and the shooting without it looking too obvious that it had been edited. So therefore i chose to go for the horror genre as i felt that i would be able to make a trailer magazine cover and poster that depicted the conventions of these peices well and would be an enjoyable process doing it.

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