So many genres...

Recently, my partner and I have been brainstorming ideas for our movie introduction all week. We figured the first thing we should decide is the genre we want to do, so we have been researching different movie genre intros all weekend. To be honest, we are already conflicted (not a great start, we know) because there are so many different types of genres to choose from. There is adventure, comedy, drama, horror, musical, science fiction, fantasy, thriller, etc. But, each genre has different conventions for their movie introductions, so we had to take that into account as well. Therefore, we decided to take the weekend to narrow down the list to only a couple genres, just to make our decision a little easier.

We ultimately narrowed the list down to horror, thriller, coming of age, and fantasy, because these are the movies we have the most knowledge with. These are also our favorite types of movies, so we figured we could really become creative with writing a story since we know it will be something that interests us. We know we have to include a title sequence, credits, and our production company's logo. I watched some movie openings over the weekend (of the movies listed below) and tried to determine what I liked and what I didn't like, and also what we can do similar-- taking into account our budget. I decided that we should keep the production logo at the beginning; for the credits, we can either scatter them throughout the opening or place them all at the end. Our title will most likely be at the end as well. So, once we decide our genre, we can narrow down these choices and begin the creating the story. Tomorrow, my partner and I will find conventions of openings for the genres we have chosen to research, and we will hopefully narrow down our list further so we can begin in-depth research into our chosen genre. Here are some movies I explored over the weekend, just to see more examples of successful openings in different genres: