What film genre have you chosen and why?
- We have chosen to make an opening sequence to a musical drama film. This is because we believe we can make a good sequence and really hook the audience into the film. This genre will also be different to everyone else's in the class and stand out from the other films.
What genre conventions have you identified and how might you use and adapt them?
- We have identified that all dance films have music and dance in them, obviously. We will use this by including many dance styles and there will be different music played. Some other conventions we have noticed is the costumes used. The typical costumes are hoodies, tracksuits, trainers, combats, etc. We will use these costume conventions as we will wear hoodies and trainers, but we may break them by wearing jeans and other clothing. There are also typical location conventions that we will stick to. These include parks, halls, clubs and venues with stages for the final 'big battle'. One of the main conventions we will adapt is the ending. The typical convention is that the two main characters, generally one male & one female, get together as a couple. We are not going to do this as we feel it is too 'cliche'.
How have key texts in the genre influenced your initial ideas for your opening sequence?
- To research the dance genre, I watched opening sequences to existing dance films. These different opening sequences all helped and influenced our opening sequence because I saw that every film uses different conventions. Some of the films start at the end and work backwards. Some start in the training hall whilst others start in clubs and dance shows. These all helped us to decide we are going to start with little snippets of the ending, where they are in a big dance competition, and work backwards revealing the story of how the characters got to where they are.
What themes and ideas from the genre will you use in your opening sequence and why?
- We will use the idea that each individual character has a bad background and they all have their own reasons for going into dance. These charcters will get through the rough times in their life by taking it out in the dance performances and by using dance as a distraction. The characters, even when dacning, will show their bad sides by stabbing each other in the back, but they will all come together as one unit to be the strongest dance company they can be...
How has your genre research informed your treatment development?
- The research helped us to develop out treatment as we found out exactly what goes on in the openings. We used this to decide on how we are going to lay out the opening sequence to our film. The research helped the treament as we could decide what two films to base our's on and what conventnions we can use from these two films.
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