Coursework discussion

Today we decided on which genre and story we wanted to base our trailer, poster and film magazine cover on, but this decision did not come easily.

To begin with we wanted to do something that we thought no one else would really chose to do, a tragedy of some kind. However, we couldn't really come up with a good enough storyline that we all agreed on. Some of us wanted to avoid love, and some of us thought it would be better to include it. In the end we decided that a good tragedy would include a child or some kind of death. Our problems were that we didn't know a child that we knew would do a good job, and we would have had to have made the actors probably a lot older than ourselves, and we didn't know any adults that would be willing to act for us. The fact that our actors/actresses will be young teenagers will automatically mean that some or most of our target audience will have to be of similar age because they can relate to them. Another problem we had was that we couldn't really think of a story sad enough.

Eventually we decided to change our genre to horror/thriller which we decided would make a better trailer as it allows us to build suspense and we can use people our own age without necessarily changing the target audience. However, this also brought about problems as we then couldn't think of anything really clever as we want to make sure that our film isn't just an ordinary horror film. We brainstormed many ideas and eventually decided on a plot and also which clips from the film we want to include in the trailer.

Overall, I'm glad we finally came to a decision and I am happy with what we are doing, but I feel like we could have made the tragedy work if we put enough thought into it. To me, there still seems something a bit obvious about our plot but we should be able to make it exciting and hopefully make people want to watch the film.