Film genre Limitations Select this genre for use in initial ideas?

Action and adventure - Software for editing to produce realistic explosions, for example

- Big casts for battles

No

Comedy - Comedy is subjective and therefore producing a good comedy without experience may lose us marks

No

Period drama - This relies heavily on mise en scene to set the time period, obtaining this may prove challenging

No

Sci Fi - Again, similar to action/adventure editing software needs to be sophisticated

No

Horror - Horror can be criticised if not ‘scary enough’

- Creating a ‘scary’ atmosphere

Yes

Fantasy - Finding suitable, ‘magical’ locations of which I can get to

- Casting young actors

Yes

Romance - Finding actors - Producing a storyline that’s

not been ‘done before’ - Making it appeal to female

market

No

Musical - Composing/producing music for trailer

- Finding a cast of singers/dancers/musicians

No

Family films - Being able to tailor the product to appeal to a wide target market, this will require detailed market research

Yes

Drama - Creating scenes that are dramatic without being ‘cheesy’

- Thinking of an engaging drama

Yes