Genre

Over the past week, as a group we discussed the pros and cons to doing horror as our genre. It turns out that horror would be extra challenging. After viewing some horror movie openings and seeing how gruesome and explicit the content is, we realized that horror is hard to obtain.

Our next choice in genre is drama. The drama genre is a genre that relies on emotional and relational development of realistic characters. Since drama is relatable and shows real life events, we thought we could create something exceptional. Many drama films use the method of introducing the main character. Drama films focus on the protagonist, which have some type of special quality or has to solve a problem.

I looked at the opening of American Beauty (1999)

The movie opens up with introducing 2 of the main characters. The daughter talks about a conflict that'll be present later on, filmed with a cheap camera to give off the home-movie type of feel. After the daughter is introduced, it switches to her father in his suburban life. The voice-over adds to the simplicity of his boring life. You automatically learn how this character looks, feels, and acts. In American Beauty, it is present right away that the daughter is like every parent-hating teen and the father is like every adult going through a mid-life crisis. You learn so much about the main characters in just the first 2 minutes. My group and I decided to do something like this, where you instantly can recognize personality traits of the character(s). At the same time, you also get a small insight of the main conflict. This would be easier for my group to achieve.


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