Planning: Discussing a Genre

As a group, the first thing we had to decide was what genre we would like to work in and base our opening sequence around. We had a discussion about what genre's we each individually liked and if it would work or not.

The Genre's we spoke about were:
- Psychological Thriller
- Action Thriller
- Crime Thriller

We discussed the advantages and disadvantages of working in each specific genre. Personally, the first genre I did not want to work in at all was Psychological Thriller because it is beyond cliché and it is a very popular genre to choose, it would get very cyclical and boring after a while. I spoke my opinion about working in that genre and our group decided that we would eliminate that off of our list, they agreed that it is a very cliché genre to work in and we want to produce something a little different. As a group we all enjoy watching Action Thriller films, however watching them we know what to expect and it gets a little too repetitive when you watch so many. It would be quite simple to come up with a basic story line for an Action Thriller as they all have pretty much the same codes and conventions. A disadvantage of this genre is we feel that we would not be able to make the opening sequence very original because an audience expects what they see in every other Action Thriller, we would not be able to not follow the codes and conventions of this genre. Lily came up with the idea of looking into the Crime Thriller genre. I instantly liked this idea because I enjoy watching programmes/films that revolve around the Crime genre. I think that working in a genre that you particularly like already definitely makes you more interested and eager to start planning the opening sequence. Our group overall really liked the idea of working in the Crime Thriller genre because as a group we think that we could make it quite unique and brainstorm a lot of ideas that we could possibly use.

In conclusion, as a group we have decided that the Genre we would like to work in is Crime Thriller. We all really like the idea of working in this genre together and we all have a lot of ideas that will contribute to the final idea of our opening sequence.