Genre

In the process of determining what genre our title sequence should be I found that I am like Stanley Kubrik………in the sense that I do not know what I want. Fortunately, I was able to determine what I did not want so I began by making a list of genres and crossing off what I did not want. This is the original list:

Action	Comedy Drama	Musical
Adult	Crime	Mystery
Adventure	Drama	Romance
Avant-garde/ Experimental	Epic	Science Fiction
Children’s Family	Fantasy	Spy Film
Comedy	Historical Film	Thriller
Western	Horror	War

Given the fact that our title sequence would be low budget, that my partner and I are both fairly new to editing, and we don’t have access to quality special effects I immediately crossed action, epic, science fiction and fantasy off the list.

My partner strongly dislikes horror and thrillers films, and I could not imagine doing a western, war, crime, or spy film without the use of guns, so I crossed those off the list.

Adult and children’s films would be difficult to film with just teen actors. And romance would be equally difficult and if not difficult, awkward. In order to film a musical, we would have to find actors who could both sing and dance. So, I crossed those of the list.

Historical and adventure films would require elaborate costumes and sets. Mystery would require a lot of extra planning, and we are both too new to film to try something experiemental, so I crossed those off of the list as well.

When I was done the list looked more like this:

• Comedy
• Drama
• Comedy Drama

So my decision was clear, comedy drama. A perfect hybrid between a light hearted feel good genre like comedy and expression of real life and melancholy presented by the drama genre.

Resources:

“Genre – Comedy Drama.” AllMovie, www.allmovie.com/genre/comedy-drama-d531.

“Movie Genres.” AllMovie, www.allmovie.com/genres.

“Director Quotes (45 Quotes).” Goodreads, Goodreads, www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/director.