Second Day Surprises

Hey everybody; yes, sadly I am back. Today we met up in our groups in class for the first time and I'll just say this: the creative juices are flowing my friends. We decided that the best thing to do was list all possible film genres and narrow down the genres due to our resources and time management skills, and what genres would come easier to us when we were brainstorming ideas for a film. We first started out with this list as pictured below.

We decided that some genres such as horror would be a genre we do not want to pursue as horror films tend to focus on lots of special effects which we do not have. My group and I also knew right away that we would want to give a message that stays with an audience long after they watch the film, and we saw that nearly every horror movie starts out in a very similar fashion so this would not be the genre for us. As of now, we know that we do not want a film that will display itself as a stereotypical film, which is another reason why we decided to eliminate the horror genre, which is filled with awful stereotypes. This led us to venturing into many other genres that leave the mind to endless possibilities for an opening such as a drama film, as drama films can progress in a plethora of ways.

We then decided that it would be a good idea to watch film openings for about 30 minutes of our gathering to see exactly what specific theme openings attempt in further detail. We chose many movies such as How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Keith, Fundamentals of Caring, Twilight, 10 Things I Hate About You, Superbad, Everything Must Go, and Magic Mike. This large spectrum of films allowed us to see what different genres would attempt to do, as well as how some movies in the same genre attempt other ways to introduce a film, whether it was to allude to conflict or introduce character. This was a great day of discussion if I can say so myself, I am getting more and more excited to share this journey with you all and I am very interested to see where our ideas start to disperse, which will be discussed with my group members very soon. If you want to see one of the film openings that we watched in order to understand what we had attempted to learn, I am providing you all a link to the opening of the film Everything Must Go. My group and I watched from the start of the video to 5 minutes and 26 seconds, as this film opening focused on introducing the character to the audience, and within 5 minutes the audience knows that this man is an alcoholic that loses his job due to his alcoholism, as well as get in an argument with who seems to be the man's wife. I hope you all enjoy!!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgXvqzAhbh8 

Resources:
Saathoff, Evan. "The 10 Biggest Horror Movie Cliches." ScreenCrush. N.p., 15 Oct. 2013. Web. 11 Mar. 2017.