Picking my genre

  Hello, this week is the beginning of the cinematic masterpiece that is to come known as my portfolio project! This is the creative process behind it all.

I started off by googling "movie genres". This made me look for the various examples fitting in each genre category. I then came to realize the variety of movies I would typically find enjoyable and entertaining. My goal for this project is to produce something that is worth watching, enjoyable and entertaining. For this reason I decided to narrow down my list of genres that I feel I could achieve those purposes with. Those narrowed down categories were: Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, and Fantasy. Along with my research, I went through tstok.net to look at sample productions from previous years where I found a project I found useful from the blog "The life of Olivia".

Comedy

Initially I thought it'd be a no brainer for me to do a comedy film. By far the genre I find the most entertaining and is my personal favorite is comedy. For example my favorite movie of all time is "Rush Hour" a movie that is also considered action packed, but is most notable for it's huge comedic presence. However, upon further thinking, I found it would be exceptionally difficult to successfully carry out funny scenarios and jokes in a two minute time period effectively, especially for an intro at that.

Fantasy

I've seen countless fantasy films in my time and I've found most of them nothing short of amazing. The drawbacks with choosing to produce a fantasy film is the level of creative genius it takes to come up with such made-up, fascinating, and unheard of concepts and creatures is something I myself don't posses. Also just knowing my strengths and weaknesses, I know I'm not the most tech savvy person. That being said, fantasy films often require a heavy amount of editing and in a lot of cases even CGI.

Action

I do believe that if I went the route of producing an action film, it definitely would've completed my goals of entertaining my audience and it being something enjoyable for them to watch. So this genre was definitely a frontrunner on my list.

Adventure

Very similar to the action genre, there was little to no reason I could find not to choose this genre. I've seen plenty of adventure films to see the premise of the genre so this was also a top choice on my list.

Crime/Mystery

The chosen genre I've ultimately decided to produce was a mystery film. I thought back to my film pitch activity assignment created earlier in the year. I just remember how quick and easily the ideas came to me, as if it were just flowing out and onto the paper. I thought to myself in that process that this idea if ever made would give people something to talk about. I've also seen many mystery movies and the thing I admire most about them all is the ability it has to make the audience really think and analyze the case along with the main protagonist. It also allows many unexpected twists keeping the audience on their toes.