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Genre Decision Blog

The genre we will be using for our opening sequence will be drama. Originally, we could not figure out what genre our pitch goes under. We were going to make it a romance and have the two main actors have some type of love connection. Then we changed that idea and thought it should be a comedy in which a lot of jokes would be made and audience laughter would play throughout the opening. We then realized since our pitch has something to do with coming of age, emotional/relational development, and struggles it would make the most sense to put this in the drama category. Therefore with the time we spent into this research we found other things that we could think about for our film that we will make soon. We took this as the time to stop and address what an actual drama film looks like. After doing so we decided the next step would be to provide examples after assessing the things other directors and film writers put into creating a drama film. We knew that although this would be our first drama film we would still need to put as much effort and research into this as possible. This leaving us to find out more on our genre we were able to find more techniques and extra editing tools that other film makers used to express emotions and exaggerate the experiences with the characters throughout the film especially in the opening scenes.



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