#8 The Decision Blog — Planning

    For my group members, it will be me, Victoria Castellat, and Leanette Diaz. I will be the one filming and editing while me and my team members will divide research and planning equally between the three of us. Me and my group members will choose to make our final film opening a hybrid genre drama and horror. According to my last blog in the Horror part, horror themes are flexible and abundant but mostly focusing on eliciting suspense and fear; similarly, drama likes to cause the audience to lean forward in their seats awaiting what's next—a complimentary pair of genres. As for codes and conventions I plan to use camera work, editing style, sound, mise-en-scene, themes; regarding whether I'm going to use horror's codes and conventions or drama's codes and conventions is a translucent section even for me. However, horror's sound is something I'd like to use, and I'd like to challenge the mainly soft and slow pacing of drama's editing style. Right now, me and my team don't have an agreed backup genre, but if I had to choose, I'd say a teenage genre. We barely know much of what we really want to do since all our ideas are scrambled up, so I'd say our target audience would be people who like horror movies. Horror attracts people who like horror movies I suppose. We have this one idea but I'm not sure we're 100% going to stick with it. Breaking it down: it's a story about a family of royals who are essentially killing each other to get the crown while trying not to get caught by their father and the other people in the monarchy—although I'm not sure we'll stick to that since I can't detect where the horror part comes in, it just seems mostly drama. Regarding that idea, there's not really much stereotyping, but if you think making royals snobby and willing to do anything for power if stereotyping, then yes, there is. The wanting power, willingness to do anything for the crown, and tyranny of the characters could affect how the audience may see each character with both hatred and sympathy, since each character kills but they might also be killed. Challenges, I'd say out scheduling, it's hard to get them to come over to my house so we can plan and because our schedules don't quite compliment each other's, and I'd hate for our final film about royalty be filmed in the school's campus. As for strengths, we're creative, so if this plan doesn't work, we'll concoct something else.