AS Film Brief (Genre Specific)

For our project in our AS Media course we have to create a short film opening. This film opening has to be genre specific. There is a specific brief that we have to follow. The brief is "The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes."In this case the genre we are focusing on for our project is Thriller. 

In the lesson we weighed up the Pros and the Cons of working with this specific genre.

Pros

• There isn't anything major that we need to focus on achieving. For example, if we were to do a comedy then we would have to make sure that we made people laugh, if we were to do a horror film then we would have to make sure we scare people. Whereas a thriller doesn't have any major issues that we need to achieve. 
• Thrillers are quite popular with all ages and genders. If I were to do a romance or a rom com then I wouldn't have a wide range of audiences and would;d probably only appeal to women as it contains cheesy love scenes.
• Thrillers don't take too much special effects in order to complete. If I were to do a sci-fi film or a fantasy film then I would have to use green screens etc. in order to achieve that out of this world m,magical and scientific look, whereas with thrillers you don't have to do that. 

Cons

• 2 minutes isn't a long time to attract the audience to watch your film. So in those 2 minutes you need to make sure that you have built up enough suspense and adrenaline for the audience to make them want to watch your film.
• The opening titles only last 2 minutes so you have to make sure that everything you want to achieve can fit into those 2 minutes or else some of it could get cut off or wasted which could make the story confusing or misleading.

Overall the thriller is a good genre to go for when creating a film because it creates suspense for the audience which is what we want to achieve. It is also quite easy to achieve when comparing it with other genres. With thrillers it can allow groups to create different types of the same thing for example a murder, there can be many different ways in which to do a murder story and many different ways for people to present it which makes them all different yet equally suspense. 

In my next post i will look at the AS Media evaluation questions.