My Film Opening Ideas - What I dont want

From my research and previous blog posts I have decided on genres I would definitely not be interested in making a film in as well as genres I would like to and am indifferent in them. I will not do any more research into the genres I am not interested in as it will become entirely irrelevant to my film unless I want to incorporate an atmosphere such as 'tense' into my opening and would therefore slightly look into how films portray this message.

I have decided to definitely not do a horror, this is because in general this genre does not appeal to me, I don't personally believe they have much depth to them either unless they were combined into a thriller where they would then become more interesting.

Comedy is also a genre I am not particularly keen on for my film opening because I am more into the dramatic side of acting and the aspects of delivering stories that the audience can take seriously and connect to. Comedy is also a difficult genre as many people find different things funny, it can be controversial in jokes used and views put across and is therefore hard to please people with, even if they're people who usually like comedy.

Another two genres I have decided to avoid are the Doc+Mock-umentary genres this is because, personally, I enjoy and feel like the majority of the younger public would much rather watch an enticing film to relax over just been given information, as if they are in a lesson. I believe its much more enjoyable, in terms of film, to watch something dramatic or tense and perhaps less realistic - something that would either never happen (for example most films in the fantasy genre) or had 1% chance of happening because films are one of the few forms of media that can do so. Soap operas have to be realistic, although intense and dramatic at sometimes, nothing is impossible and I think that is why it causes distress to some people whilst watching it. Due to all of this I would rather steer away from these genres. Another reason for swaying against the mock-umentary genre is similar to the reasons for my disinterest in in wanting to make a film opening in a comedy genre, everyone finds different things funny, some aspects could cause offence and I would much prefer to make a dramatic and serious film opening than one that is just done to make people laugh.   

The Sci-Fi genre could be difficult to do justice as in order for it to be good you need good hi-tech/scientific looking equipment and usually a higher budget that as students, we don't have access to. Aside from this I find these films complicated and often hard for the viewer to grasp it's concepts. I want to make a film that makes the viewers ask and wonder many things however I don't want the concept to be that hard to grasp because people could get quite bored - particularly if they don't understand it. Even though I find films in this genre interesting and enticing such as The Matrix, Avatar and ET, it's not something I am interested in making. This also applies for the 'spy/mystery' genre.

Even though I know I want some conventions and elements of  thriller in my film, I don't want the entire film to be based around a thriller. I want the film opening to make the audience feel captivated and on edge about what is going to happen next, I also want a 'villain' and 'hero' in my film but that is  as far as I am concerned with making a thriller.

In terms of how the film will be made I have 3 main options: Animation on computer, Stop motion animation or filming regularly with people and a camera. I have ruled out animation on a computer simply because it would take up too much time and the software for it isn't available to me. That leaves me with stop motion animation or filming people with a camera (regular filming). Out of these two I have decided to go with the regular way of filming, so filming people rather than using stop motion animation. This is because for stop motion animation I would need to make characters out of play-doh or an alike modelling compound and I don't feel like the audience would be able to relate to the story or feel compassion for the characters if they weren't real life humans.