AS Film Brief (Genre Specific)

Within our project in our AS Media course we have to create a short film opening. This film opening has to be a specific genre. There is also a specific brief that we have to follow. The brief includes "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 is a 'Thriller'.
In the lesson we weighed up the Pros and the Cons of actually working this specific genre.

Pros

• There isn't anything major that we need to focus on achieving. For example, if we do a Comedy then we would have to make sure that whatever we do will make everyone laugh, but that would be near impossible because not everyone has the same humor, if we was to do a Horror to have to most infidelity make sure it scared people. Whereas within a Thriller there it doesn't have any major issues that we need to achieve.
• Thrillers are quite popular with all ages and genders. If we was to do a Romance or a Rom Com then we would have a wide range of audiences to cater for and would probably end up appealing to just women anyway for the Romantic film because of its content of those cheesy love scenes.
• Thrillers do not take too much special effects in order to work correctly, just a few creepy sound effects, and the right camera angles, theirs a few more stuff to add but it's nothing like a sci-fi film or a fantasy film then we would need a green screen etc.

Cons:

• 2 minutes isn't really a long time to attract the audience to watch your film. So within those 2 minutes you need to make sure that you have get everything in there like suspense and get the audience to be on the edge of their seat, to make them continue watching 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. 

Within my next post I will be looking into the AS Media evaluation questions.