Discussion of Genre Types

After researching various types of genre for our own personal knowledge and understanding of different conventions that make up a genre i.e. big explosions and fighting scenes make up action movies, and dark settings and tense atmospheres make up thrillers.
For our opening sequence we have decided that we are going to choose a teen urban drama. We have agreed that this is a very good genre to use as we feel more familiarised with how the characters would act as we are teenagers ourselves. Also as most of the group watch teen dramas we will know what to include with the footage as we know what the audience will be expecting, as well as our own knowledge we are also able to use friends' who are interested in teen dramas, giving us a big advantage of our knowledge upon teen dramas. As well as asking friends what to include within the intro we will also be able to ask their opinions of what we have filmed, giving us feedback which will allow us to improve and adapt on our techniques.
As well as using knowledge to help us understand this drama we are also able to use the surroundings around us in which we live. This is because we believe our local area will serve well to appear as the typical teen drama set. Because we have the set around us this will make it very cheap and easy to film, this is one of the reasons why we chose teen drama. We believe that teen drama is able to be filmed very cheaply as we do not need to use expensive props, dangerous stunts or effects etc.