MAIN Post 2: Choosing a Genre

To create an opening sequence to film, we needed to find out what genre we want our film to be.  When we were first discussing what genre to choose we initially thought about doing comedy. However, once we thought about it in greater detail, we realised it would be quite difficult to create an opening sequence for a comedy film and that this genre would probably not be the best option if we wanted to gain a high grade, therefore, we done some research to find out what is the most popular film genre and what type of film there is a gap in the market for today.

After carrying out some secondary research online I found that the top movie genres are Drama, Romance, Action, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comedy, Crime, Family & Thriller. So therefore it would be best to chose out of these. I then looked at the best selling box office films of all times to see what genre these films were. I found that most of these films were in the Action genre of a hybrid of this genre such a Action Adventure, therefore this would be a good genre to use.

http://moviedistributionfacts.wordpress.com/tag/popular-movie-genres/

As a group, we then carried out some primary research, by doing a questionnaire, to find out what peoples favourite genre of film is and what genre they would like to see more of.
Here is a screen shot of our Questionnaire we handed out.

Below are the results we recive form the questionaire we handed out

After looking at both our primary and secondary research, we decided upon doing an opening sequence for the Action Adventure genre. Although this was not out top answer in out questionnaire, it was still one of the highest and our secondary research proved that it was popular as well. As well as this, this is a genre that everyone in our group enjoys watching so will make the task more enjoyable.