Day 2: The Plan

  

      Day 2: The Plan

 

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              Today in class Grant and I sat down to brainstorm the ideas we had for our film opening. At first we were overwhelmed with the endless possibilities we had! There was a good five minutes of dead air between us while we just sat there, our minds clicking with ideas. In order for us to organize our thoughts, we made a plan to narrow the decision down to first just deciding which genre we would like to do. As of right now, we chose to do a film opening in the Children/Family film category. 

               Based off of research that we did in class, we were able to pin point our target audience and find out some of our genre's conventions. We accessed helpful information about the characteristics of the genre, such as specific target audience, and helpful tips that regard different ways to create a family film, using this website http://www.filmsite.org/childrensfilms.html. The website specified that these type of films are generally geared toward children ages 12 and under, but may be suitable for all age groups. We want to follow the typical conventions of the genre because it seems like more of a challenge in the sense that we would have to live up to the standard the has been set in other films in this category.

              Some iconic films in the children/family category are those like Old Yeller (1957) and Where the Red Fern Grows (1974). We plan to use these movies as inspiration to our film opening's story line. Many children's films typically incorporate elements of fantasy that involved imaginative situations and fantastical plots, something that we hope to do in our opening as well. 

              One convention that we do hope to break, which is described in this website,  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/animated-kids-movies-2017-watch-trailers-959853 is the likelihood of children's films, in this day in age, to be animated. For obvious reasons, we chose to not follow this convention; firstly, we do not have easy access to the technology required to create an animated film opening. Secondly, it poses to us the opportunity to bring back the classic feeling that comes with standard film and gives us a chance to show audiences that a children/family film can still be entertaining without having to be animated. We have a great challenge ahead of us: being able to have a successfully entertaining children/family film opening without it being animated. Next class, we will continue to discuss our genre and film ideas and see what more brilliance we come up with! 

until next time, 

                    Kyleigh.