Genre Research

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Today we began class trying to establish what genre we can put the overall film under. This was a slight hassle due to their being a series of different venues it can go under. Making it a horror would be easy due the main character being kidnapped. But the fact that its a 90s sitcom would throw off the "scary effect" its supposed to have. Putting the film under the mystery genre was another possible suggestion but was to small of a box to subjectively put our film in. Mystery was mostly only going to be used as the first 2 minutes but the overall film we had planned on making would be more of a psychological thriller. 

What sets a psychological thriller apart is it expressing the darkness in the human mind. The narrative of our film is told from the point of view of a psychologically stressed character. The storyline is layered with frequent twists, surprises and an unresolved ending. The tone is often chilling, edgy, disturbing, unsettling, moody, ominous and foreboding. These elements align perfectly with the genre of psychological thriller which ended up being the main genre we achieved.

As a sub genre we decided to use Drama. This is because our film includes a lot of dramatic irony where the viewer knows more about the characters than the characters themselves. In addition to that the whole story has a dramatic effect to it. Being kidnapped as an adolescent and just realizing as a young adult creates tension between all the characters the victim meets. These factors alongside the language we are going to use in the film is going to give it dramatic accents to the film making it our sub genre.

With our genre completed our team was able to move onto more details about the introduction of our film.


Genre: Psychological thriller, Drama

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