Preliminary Research

In this blog it contains my research on different types of genre before picking the genre for our project

    Before we start to work on our project we did some research on different types of genre that we could do for our project. We also watch a youtube video about film opening and how we could open our film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw_ysaoVlt4

Film	Genre/Genre Conventions	How did this scene introduce characters, settings and create intrigue?	What did you like/dislike about the intro?
Extraction II, 2023	Action Fight, explosion, hero, villain, weapon, blood,	In this film it uses the theory of starting the intro by adding a loud bang, where in the scene it shows the character getting shot in the next then everything went black, but the scene came up again emphasising with the characters emotion. It kept doing this until the character was on the edge of the bridge leaning on the bridge then fell into the ocean. In my opinion with this it gives the audience a sense of curiosity, because the audience wants to know what will happen with the character but with the black screen keeps coming up this makes the scene more intense.  Other than that they also introduce the intro by introducing the hero as they first show the main character by emphasising the	For me what I dislike about the movie is how there was a lot of things going on, where there were so much blood and gun shot. This was good for the movie, but for my own personal preference it’s not what I would want to watch in a movie.
Pamali: The corpse Village, 2023	Horror Ghost, jumpscare, dark/low light, old places, night time, murder, blood,	In this film it uses the theory by starting the film with a huge bang, where this allows to create an intrigue making the audience curious.  Another thing is that the film introduces the film by showing the genre by showing genre conventions such as the dark lighting, how it was in a cemetery, the character was alone, and how the scene was at night.  Overall they didn’t have any dialog in which this makes the audience feel more intense because they don’t know what’s going to happen next.	I dislike how from the intro of the video for me it was confusing which makes it hard to decode what is happening in the film. Other than that it was mostly just the character in the film doing their own thing then suddenly they started whistling, for me this is what i disliked from it.
Uglies, 2024	Sci Fi Technology, space, magic, aliens, flying cars,	In this film it uses the theory of introducing the audience with the genre where they show the scenes of scientists being present and all of the technologies that they use during the film. Not only that they also introduce the audience the plot of the film by the narrator which is also the main character, they introduce it by doing a flashback of what has happened giving context to the audience on what to expect and why things are being shown in the film.	What I really enjoy is when the narrator did a flashback on what has happened and in my opinion this helps to make the audience more interested and engage with the movie.
(500) Days of Summer, 2000	Romance People in love, bf, gf, weddings, dates, bright colours, people happy,	In this film it uses the theory by introducing the relationship between the characters which is the man and women. It also introduces the genre, but how the narrator in the movie says that the movie wasn’t about love.  With the narrator saying that the movie wasn’t about love, this helps to create intrigue as from the first scenes they show both of the characters it looks like they were in love but with the narrator saying they weren’t it creates a sense of curiosity for the audience making them want to watch the whole movie.  Overall they show the plot of the movie by showing where the characters first know each other, which is in the office. This allows the audience to guess what would happen throughout the movie, but still it is not sure yet whether that will happen or not.	I believe that the montage was good but it was a bit too long and it felt like just a repetition for me. The choice of music that they use in order to show the montage of the video it is good just a bit too long
Johnny English, 2003	Comedy  Jokes, character teasing each other,	In this film firstly they use the theory of introducing the hero of the movie and as well the main character which was Johnny English, the setting of the film was dark at first which in my opinion this allows the audience to feel intense with what's going to happen next, BUT they change scene and it shows to the audience how it was all just a daydream that the character had.  At the very last scene the characters were having a conversation in which they had a short pause then they introduced the character Johnny English as their ‘new agent’ in which they added a montage. During the montage it was very interesting as they show the red blue and white colours trying to represent the english flag and as well they show some clips of Johnny English being silly in each clips where audience	From this movie I like everything about the film, nothing was boring in my opinion. What I really liked was the montage of the film.

From all of these research my group decided to focus on thriller, as from the first 5 genre that I have research does not have thriller I research about one movie in the thriller genre. 

Breaking In, 2018

Thriller Low-key lighting, plot twist,

In this film they introduce a character which was an old man who at first was shown at a slow pace, feeling like it was a montage video of him. During this scene the lighting colour was in a dark contrast that gives off a gloomy feeling. Then music suddenly came out, the music was upbeat but the singer singing it was in a low tone. During this music being played it was the old man jogging. With the music being upbeat as well it shows the setting being in the neighbourhood which was bright. But soon not long after there was a sudden car that appeared and hit the old man. When the driver came out, it made me think how

From this movie I like how they build suspense at the beginning making it feel mysterious but they change it by adding upbeat music. I also like the idea of having the montage video of the old man jogging, there was a scene that shows how careful the old man was when he was crossing the road where out of nowhere a car came and hit him.

Self reflection: This preliminary research help me a lot on learning more and see what each genre has to offer, with us watching the first opening of the movie it gives me an idea on what I could do for each movie opening. From this preliminary research as well made me realised that most movies in the same genre has almost similar idea of their opening movie, to which this allows me to dive deeper for the thriller genre and see what kind of conventions and ideas that they use in the movie.