By identifying the codes and conventions of the romance, comedy, thriller and drama genres; our group has gained more of an insight into what genre we would like to use for our trailer. Additionally, through the extensive research of these genres, we have been able to gain knowledge and understanding, on what codes and conventions to add into our trailer. This is important as it allows the audience to identify the genre through its specific codes and conventions.
Here are a list of benefits and limitations of filming each one of these genres.
Romance
Some of the members in our group liked the idea of filming a romantic trailer. The reasons behind this is because not a lot of students use romance as a genre for their trailer. Additionally, as females, we gravitated towards a female targeted genre.The benefit of this is that the members in our group watch a lot of romantic films therefore, it will make it easier to come up with
story lines.
A limitation of filming a romantic trailer is casting. As a group, we have asked various boys to take part in our production to portray a male protagonist but, none of the boys seemed interested in being involved. In fact, they said that they would not join for that specific reason of it being a romantic movie as it is not masculine.
To overcome this problem, our group has decided that if we were going to film a romantic movie, we film a one sided romance in which we would not see the male protagonist and focus mainly on the females point of view and how she views love.
Comedy
The benefits of filming a comedy trailer is that comedy is also another genre that is not used by students also, it will entertaining to film this genre as we will have to come up with funny scenarios and jokes to use in the trailer.
However, a limitation of filming a comedy trailer is that the audience may not find the jokes that we use amusing. Additionally, some of the jokes may not be understood by people of a different culture therefore, we will have to find jokes that universal. If we don't, the trailer may not make sense to certain people.
To overcome this limitation our group will really need to think about the jokes that we would use. We would do a pilot study on a representative audience sample to see if they like and understand the jokes. If the pilot study is success we will keep the trailer as it is if not, we will have to re-film certain scenes of the trailer. Therefore, we have to start filming early so if we have to change anything we still have time.
Thriller
An advantage of filming a thriller movie is that our opening sequence in AS was a thriller therefore, we could use some of the ideas that we had last year to create a narrative and story-line. Another benefit of doing a thriller trailer is that a lot of students use thriller as a genre. Therefore, our group will be able to gain insight on others people perspective on the thriller genre by watching there trailers.
A limitation of doing a thriller genre is that thriller is a easy genre to do hence lots of students use it. Therefore, it may be difficult to come up with an original trailer that is different from others. As a group we want our trailer to be unique and by doing a thriller genre we don't believe that our trailer will be an individual.
To overcome this limitation our group will have ask for advice from the teacher and do surveys to investigate how we could make our trailer more appealing towards the audience and what we could add to make it different
Drama
An advantage of doing the drama genre is that it is the easiest genre to film, as it would not need special effects, or expensive costumes, and we can base our trailer on true stories making it easier in coming up with the story line. Additionally drama is the largest filming genre as it is covers a wide spectrum of topics and plots. Also if we choose to film a dramatic trailer it will allow us to challenge some of the current issues that is occurring in Britain, as our group may be able to include a current debate to make our audience think and to also inform them of the topic. We even can put our own opinion into the trailer putting forward our ideas and beliefs.
However, even though the dramatic genre can be seen to be more diverse, consumers may view it as boring. This may because of the superhero craze that is occurring in the movie industry at the moment. According to the BFI statistical yearbook the top two films in 2016 were Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with takings of £66 million and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them with earnings of £55 million. This is a clear example how science fiction and fantasy are the prime genres at the moment, and with our low budget it would be hard to create a fantasy/ science fiction trailer.
Through this research our group has weighed the strengths and the limitations of each genre, and have decided that the film genre that we are going to choose for our trailer is the genre drama. Even though some may find this genre boring our group found it more diverse allowing us to venture into different topics, and plots that we would not have been able to venture into if we picked another genre such as thriller. We found drama more divergent and more suited to our current budget.
RESOURCES
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2017.pdf
https://www.slideshare.net/RyanBogle2/a2-media-genre-research
https://study.com/academy/lesson/romance-genre-definition-history-characteristics.html
https://www.slideshare.net/LewisTowse7/advantages-and-disadvantages-of
https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/ultimate-list-of-film-sub-genres/
Here are a list of benefits and limitations of filming each one of these genres.
Romance
Some of the members in our group liked the idea of filming a romantic trailer. The reasons behind this is because not a lot of students use romance as a genre for their trailer. Additionally, as females, we gravitated towards a female targeted genre.The benefit of this is that the members in our group watch a lot of romantic films therefore, it will make it easier to come up with
story lines.
A limitation of filming a romantic trailer is casting. As a group, we have asked various boys to take part in our production to portray a male protagonist but, none of the boys seemed interested in being involved. In fact, they said that they would not join for that specific reason of it being a romantic movie as it is not masculine.
To overcome this problem, our group has decided that if we were going to film a romantic movie, we film a one sided romance in which we would not see the male protagonist and focus mainly on the females point of view and how she views love.
Comedy
The benefits of filming a comedy trailer is that comedy is also another genre that is not used by students also, it will entertaining to film this genre as we will have to come up with funny scenarios and jokes to use in the trailer.
However, a limitation of filming a comedy trailer is that the audience may not find the jokes that we use amusing. Additionally, some of the jokes may not be understood by people of a different culture therefore, we will have to find jokes that universal. If we don't, the trailer may not make sense to certain people.
To overcome this limitation our group will really need to think about the jokes that we would use. We would do a pilot study on a representative audience sample to see if they like and understand the jokes. If the pilot study is success we will keep the trailer as it is if not, we will have to re-film certain scenes of the trailer. Therefore, we have to start filming early so if we have to change anything we still have time.
Thriller
An advantage of filming a thriller movie is that our opening sequence in AS was a thriller therefore, we could use some of the ideas that we had last year to create a narrative and story-line. Another benefit of doing a thriller trailer is that a lot of students use thriller as a genre. Therefore, our group will be able to gain insight on others people perspective on the thriller genre by watching there trailers.
A limitation of doing a thriller genre is that thriller is a easy genre to do hence lots of students use it. Therefore, it may be difficult to come up with an original trailer that is different from others. As a group we want our trailer to be unique and by doing a thriller genre we don't believe that our trailer will be an individual.
To overcome this limitation our group will have ask for advice from the teacher and do surveys to investigate how we could make our trailer more appealing towards the audience and what we could add to make it different
Drama
An advantage of doing the drama genre is that it is the easiest genre to film, as it would not need special effects, or expensive costumes, and we can base our trailer on true stories making it easier in coming up with the story line. Additionally drama is the largest filming genre as it is covers a wide spectrum of topics and plots. Also if we choose to film a dramatic trailer it will allow us to challenge some of the current issues that is occurring in Britain, as our group may be able to include a current debate to make our audience think and to also inform them of the topic. We even can put our own opinion into the trailer putting forward our ideas and beliefs.
However, even though the dramatic genre can be seen to be more diverse, consumers may view it as boring. This may because of the superhero craze that is occurring in the movie industry at the moment. According to the BFI statistical yearbook the top two films in 2016 were Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with takings of £66 million and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them with earnings of £55 million. This is a clear example how science fiction and fantasy are the prime genres at the moment, and with our low budget it would be hard to create a fantasy/ science fiction trailer.
Through this research our group has weighed the strengths and the limitations of each genre, and have decided that the film genre that we are going to choose for our trailer is the genre drama. Even though some may find this genre boring our group found it more diverse allowing us to venture into different topics, and plots that we would not have been able to venture into if we picked another genre such as thriller. We found drama more divergent and more suited to our current budget.
RESOURCES
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2017.pdf
https://www.slideshare.net/RyanBogle2/a2-media-genre-research
https://study.com/academy/lesson/romance-genre-definition-history-characteristics.html
https://www.slideshare.net/LewisTowse7/advantages-and-disadvantages-of
https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/ultimate-list-of-film-sub-genres/
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