Research - Genre

For my Final Piece I am researching two main genres, Horror and Romantic Drama.

Horror

The reasons for why I decided to research into this genre was because  there are always different ideas and aspects which you can include into this genre and can base it on any social group (e.g. people with mental health, teenagers, etc.)


Horror films generally follow the idea of the characters being placed in delocalised locations where nobody would be able to help them. (e.g. a forest, an abandoned buildings, a house in the middle of nowhere. Horror films are always more than likely to have at least one of the following: danger, death, a curse and blood as these are what makes a film classify as a horror.

When doing my research I gathered up what the top 10 horror films were from 1980 - now.


Source: boxofficemojo.com

 

 

From the top 10 I am able to gather that the company which comes up the most is dimension films, who are well known for some of their horror films, when I look into existing horror film openings I will look particularly at dimension films and the other studios which are in the top 10.   

Romantic Drama

The reason for why I decided to look more into this genre was because I think that this genre would be different towards the Horror genre which I am also looking at as it involves much different techniques for the opening sequences as the transitions tend to be a lot softer, helping it to flow nicely as well as having less harsh music in the background.
Romantic Drama films tend to follow the ' Boy meets the girl' Scenario where it traditionally ends with a 'happily ever after'. The story line tends to involve a huge amount of emotions, feelings, pain, love, flashbacks and past stories.
Again like when looking into the horror genre I found out the Top 10 Romantic drama films from 1980- now which will help me when I have to analyse some opening sequences


Source: boxofficemojo.com

Romantic dramas tend to be aimed towards the female gender as women tend to find human relationships more interesting than other genres of films as they sometimes believe that one day their lives would be like that of a character in the film.