Film genres and current opening ideas

Film genres and current opening ideas

Whilst doing research onto which genre I would like for my film opening I needed to look at all of them separately to decided which one I would feel most comfortable producing and filming.

The most common used ones are: 

Horror

Comedy

Action

Adventure

To begin with I wanted to go with horror as I thought it would be quick and easy to do so. But later on whilst trying to brainstorm ideas for it. I found that all of them were very predictable and quite boring. So I decided to look at the other possibilities, I thought that action and adventure would be a bit hard to try and do straight away as I would need many props to make it look good and I did not have access to these.

Comedy is often hard to establish as an opening sequence, it wouldn't make much sense and would be hard to come up for a story line to go with a comedy genre.

So, because I thought these four didn't fit what I wanted to pursue to do. I did further research and discovered crime fiction. I thought that this was interesting to do and would make my opening sequence stand out.

I looked at possible narratives such as basing it on things such as sex-prostitution, victims , etc. 

Drugs-the addiction, family, alcohol, legal issues, how far someone would go to make money.

I thought that this was quite interesting, I thought that basing it in a rough area with troubled children would be good to make it look as real as possible or base it on one person and showing the bad things he/she got into in his life all in the opening sequence.

I thought that the location was a vital part to crime fiction as it establishes a connection with the audience and is key to the narrative.