Nicole, Amy and I found that it was difficult to make a new genre, although at first glance it looked easy. With our research, we found that we didn't do enough. We only asked two questions - 'What's your favourite genre? and 'If you were to watch a film, which would you choose?' and continued to give them a list of a few films that would fit into our genre. Our research gave us negetive feedback and this meant that we couldn't change our genre even when we found out that what we'd chosen wasn't the popular choice - the popular genre was 'comedy'. The process of regenrification was one that film makers use to change the genre of a film thats already been created. This is also a form of hybridisation, and that is where a film maker will put two genres together to create a new one.
We found that we chose a genre before actually looking at lists of what had recently been popular. This meant that we didn't know what was popular at that time, and were guessing about what genre we were going to do. This was really risky as we didn't want our film to 'bomb'.
We also found that our group asked brief questions when we were researching, which limited us to a specific genre as we couldn't change it up. We found that we didn't ask a wide age group, so we only discovered that our type of film wasn't popular with 16/17 year olds, but may have been popular with another older age group.
What I've learnt about genre is that you need to research a lot more about it before you continue to do it. This means that when I start my coursework I will use an entirely different approach to the topic, and will make sure that I research more before I jump in to choosing my genre. I learnt that film directors are able to manipulate the audience into believing a film is a certain genre, when infact it is the process of regenrification that was used to help genre the film.
Included here is the video that was taken for our work. Nicole, Amy and I created a 'romantic thriller' and this is what we learnt.
Good Lucy!
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