Change of Genre

During the production of our opening sequence, my partner and i decided that the film was swaying into the genre of a British Drama than the action packed Mystery Thriller we thought it would be at the beginning of the planning process. We decided to run with this as it had more homegrown feel to it and felt like it was becoming a sequence that people could relate to whilst also seeming realistic.

My partner and i went back to the drawing board and edited/re-evaluated a few things we thought would benefit our production. We began to research on films that related to our genre of choice. Adulthood resembled our opening sequence the best because of the fact it kind of has the same story-line  Man comes out of jail feeling guilty of his past and tries to correct it knowing that it wont be easy with enemies on his back. This is the same plot as our opening sequence but we needed to make it different which is why we kept our idea of the voice over there instead of the flashbacks. Kidulthood also relates to our opening sequence because it is gritty and homegrown which is the same affect we wanted to leave on our audience. Bullet Boy is also another one we could relate it to because of the fact it has the same type of concept. Boy comes out of jail wanting to stay out of trouble but cant seem to escape the cycle.

We still kept certain elements from our previous idea of doing a mystery thriller and incorporated it into this new genre. We changed the colour of the footage in order to give it that dark British Drama feel which is what we learnt from researching some independent British Drama's.

The genre was changed at a late stage but definitely benefited us in our production. Taking ideas from both the British Drama genre and the Mystery Thriller genre allowed us to further incorporate different techniques of filming and editing. Our quick cut shots and close ups still give that mysterious feel. The colour change to grainy grey gave off the dramatic British feel and helped our production to be distinctively different from our peers.