Genre Research

 As I dig deeper into the genre, I find more things that I need to include on my film opening to make it successful. I want people to feel heart race and intrigue. And as an article I read said “The first scene of a film is an integral part of its storytelling. It establishes the tone, the setting or sometimes introduces the central characters. It gives the viewers motivation to keep watching” (Minton, 1). When I read this, I found this to be crucial in this process because it is true, the film opening is the most important part because it gets the audience hooked. Therefore, I’m going to keep this in my mind as I go through this process.

 I learned that the two have to give the audience enough information to keep them on their toes without revealing the full plot of the film. This helps keep the audience engaged in the film and makes them not want to stop watching. Also, there has to be a crime and it was to be introduced as well because this whole genre revolves around someone investing something, so by introducing the crime in the film opening the rest of the film will be the main character solving the crime. Article! 

As I was reading an article that followed Michael Green who co-wrote “blade runner2049” without knowing anything about the mystery genre. And he said this “Your average viewer — any viewer who approaches a mystery, be it an hour-long TV procedural or a film that’s taken many people many years to concoct — they will look at it and automatically, subconsciously be able to see the decision tree of where the story can go”. This made me think about our film opening because even though we’re not making a full movie I still would like the audience to have an “oh my god” moment while watching those two minutes, kind of like ending it on a cliffhanger to leave people wanting more because that is what mystery is about.

 https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/the-secret-to-a-good-mystery-movie-it-isnt-the-surprise.html