We discussed in a group what it is we wanted from our film. We all agreed we wanted to do something that we could all use our skills on. But also we wanted something that would push our skills further. We started from the beginning and disused genre.    

Horror –  I had done horror previously for my AS media video. I asked both Emily Hamer and Emily read if we could not do horror as I wanted to try something a little different. I also asked them this as i wanted to push myself and try to develop my skills. They both agreed with me and said that they totally agreed with me.

Comedy –  when researching comedy we looked at film such as ‘Johnny English’ when looking at this we struggled to find ideas on what we could do for the genre. None of my group including me would describe ourselves as very comical.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSg2tgnvtgY

Romance – when discussing romance we considered it a bit too easy. We thought that it would come across as ‘‘cheesy’’ this is something we hated the idea of because we wanted to make our film something we could all be proud to show people.   

Adventure –  when discussing adventure my group thought of many different film to research as Emily read was a fan of action films.

We researched

Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones – kingdom of the crystal skull.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7z74BvLWUg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKfT7wloOas

When watching these trailers we realised that adventure film needed to be quite big productions in order for them to be good. This is due for the persistent need of effects and pyrotechnics. This was completely out of the question for us unfortunately, as we just didn’t have the budget or the knowledge to make our trailer to the standard we would have wanted it.

Romantic comedy – romantic comedy was completely out of the question for us. As we thought is we even attempted it would have been a mess. We had already ruled out both romance and comedy for reasons or ‘‘cheesiness’’ and the fact none of us considered ourselves funny enough.

Action – Like adventure Emily Read had lots of ideas of what we research. So we researched Die hard and the terminator because they were as Emily read described them ‘‘classics’’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TQ-pOvI6Xo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Jo8QoOTQ4

Unfortunately also like adventure there was a major issue with special effect. This was due to the fact of all the action films where done on very large budgets! That we just couldn’t afford.

Crime drama – when looking at crime drama we looked at ‘‘Sherlock homes’’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0hXhGt5XPg

 We discussed the scenario  if we did end up doing a crime drama. Emily Hamer pointed out that if we was to do it then we would need a lot of actors to do it and a very strong main actor to lead. The lead would probably also have to be a man, which ruled any of us taking the lead role.   

Documentary –  when discussing documentary we felt it was a little lazy. We ruled it out almost immediately as we felt it would develop our skills at all.  

Animation – we also ruled out any animation film as we didn’t have the skills or equipment to try to attempt this genre.

Drama – We liked the idea of drama almost immediately. Emily Hamer is also a fan of this genre so it helped massively with research. The films we research were ‘‘my sisters keeper’’ and ‘‘Forest Gump’’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP4NxUFgFrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPIEn0M8su0

Thriller – with thrillers we would have had to build suspense like a horror, so I unfortunately had to ask both Emily Read and Emily Hamer if this was something we could rule out. As I would like to have done something this year. They both thankfully agreed and we ruled out thriller.

Western – when discussing western films we had to think rationally about where we would be able to set it. We realised quite quickly that we would have nowhere to set our film if we did a western genre.   

Musical –  musical was something we had to also rule out because we didn’t know anyone who could sing.

Sci-fi – sci-fi is one of my favourite genres so I suggested we researched ‘‘star wars’’

Unfortunately just like action and adventure there was a major need for special effects. The setting for a sci-fi also would have been a lot harder to find.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvqpFbRKtQ

Mellow drama – we all loved the idea of a mellow drama. We researched ‘‘the last song’’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwLmQqRanvM

When we watched it we felt very at ease with the idea of doing a mellow drama. We started coming up with ideas almost straight away.