Introduction and Choices, Choices, and even more Choices

          My name is Taylor and I chose to make a short film with my partner, Klaus.  This is my last year blog.  We chose to do a short film and our first goal for this project was to think of a genre.  Klaus and I are between the two genres of action or sci-fi and we wanted to do a little bit of research before for sure choosing which genre we wanted to focus our story off of.  Action movies generally have a fast paced plot and a lot of violence and the main character is usually a hero.  The hero is usually placed in threatening situations, fast paced chase scenes, etc.  This type of short film would require a lot of cutaways in the post production side of the film.  With films like Die Hard and the Marvel Franchise, there is always an evil that the heroine has to fight against throughout the entire movie.  The posters also include all the big names from the movie and some type of scene from the movie with fire or carnage from a big fight at the end of the movie.

          For sci-fi, a lot of cgi effects are used to create a different type of world, as a sci-fi movie is set in a post apocalyptic era.  New technologies are introduced with the use of close ups and a clear indicator of the setting that the movie takes place.  A lot of hypothetical themes are introduced in these types of movies and political, social and philosophical issues are mentioned with futuristic elements.  Movies from the Marvel Franchise are set in a different future of the world, where super heroes exist with aliens coming to Earth in supernatural situations.