Initial planning - subgenre's

this was the first step in our planning process, before we go any further we need to decide on the subgenre or hybrid genre we are going to base out opening on, we storyboarded the existing genre's we could look at, and come up with a short list of possible favourites, including:

Psychological thriller : whilst this has been done many times, it is a firm favourite for audiences, can be very effective and is often the more interesting and exciting thrillers. we like the simplicity of it also, as we think some thriller subgenre's are quite intricate and confusing - such as spy, conspiracy and religious thrillers.

crime thriller: these are also favourites, as the openings can be quite interesting, we like the action and adrenaline usually found in them too.

disaster thriller : such as The Day After Tomorrow, this would be really fun and exciting to film, however quite difficult. It is not a subgenre often chosen by media students as it would be quite a challenge to tackle, but would be really effective if produced well.

we then looked at some examples of each chosen subgenre so we could fully understand them, what their codes and conventions are and whether we could achieve them. From this we found that we would find a disaster thriller too challenging, and that we preferred psychological thrillers to crime thrillers, including the conventions of psychological thrillers, as their opening were usually more intriguing and mysterious, rather than straight forward and violent. we felt that psychological thrillers were more intellectual.