Genre Mind Map

Today Laura and I created a mind map as to what we would perhaps consider to do for our teaser trailer. We divided the genres into five that we really wanted to do. These were all horror based genres and we really believe that by doing a horror genre we could make it really effective and would create something quite dramatic and immerse for our audience. We had previously done a 'chick flick' genre for the opening scene and we enjoyed doing this genre and found we could really relate to the genre and made something quite believable.

However we now think that with the skills and techniques that we have learnt and acquired through the previous year of media studies that we could perhaps make something more skillful and dramatic with greater and bolder filming angles and shots. We have also created a better association with the editing software and the effects that it can supply us with, I feel that we could make a really effective teaser trailer through using some of the effects on the Adobe editing software.

We have listed some of the films that we have been inspired with and the genres that they fall under and the successful trailer and teaser trailers that they have been able to produce. One that is not listed however was the 'Blair Witch Project' which is one of our main inspirations form the documentary feel and the hand-held effect really gives the impression of an authentic film.
We have written some other documentary style films such as 'Paranormal Activity' and them the more big budget films that have made an impact on the audience due to there captivity and immersing experience e.g 'Inception'.

I feel that by doing a mind map it has helped us see clearly the options we have and to also allow us to reflect on what would be effective but also manageable. I think we will refer to this mind map frequently and will be a good way to know of films that we can analyse and look at different ideas shown by them.