Picking a genre 2/16/20

With the Aice media project slowly approaching my group has had to come up with a genre for our film opening. So far we are thinking of doing suspense or drama or maybe a mix of the two. Currently we are just watching film openings to try and find what makes a good film opening. To do this each of us are watching different film openings for a variety of movies that could have a different genre. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8OUxsMHySo

This is one of my favorite movies so I naturally watched the film opening and saw that their goal was to tell a story that was so interesting you'd have to watch the rest of the movie to find out. They mentioned a rivalry with another main character and something about the opening wants you to continue to watch to see his point of view or to see how their relationship works and develops.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ARFyrM6gVs

The opening to baby driver is my favorite movie opening of all time. I think it is interesting because of the music that is in the background. There is a young teen who is sitting in the drivers seat of a red car and you see the passengers enter a bank and start to rob the place but the whole time he is in the car with sunglasses on and listening to music and dancing. I think music is a very important part of a film opening because it sets the tone that proceeds the rest of the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwDH3BpaCQI

In Ferris Bueller's Day off a teenage around our age is faking being sick so he can skip school. This is an interesting approach because the film is trying to appeal to a specific target audience by being relatable and I thought this would be something cool to incorporate into our film opening.


We are still currently discussing genres and what not in a group chat we made on whatsapp where we share ideas.