Officially Choosing the Genre

          Klaus and I have officially chose our genre, sci-fi.  We think with this genre we'll be able to make the best short film and have the least amount of mistakes like we would have if we did an action movie with action sequences.  When I was doing research about different technical conventions of a sci-fi, I found out that the technical elements are really similar to the horror genre.  Sci-fi is similar to horror because of the establishing shots used at the beginning of the film to set the time and place.  Also, most of the sounds used within a horror and sci-fi film are non-diegetic since most of the characters or things in these types of movies don't exist in the real world.  Sci-fi films are generally edited to be as realistic as possible to make the viewer think the movie is the most believable of a scenario.

          Most sci-fi movies are set in a hyper-realistic setting with booming technology that is set in the far future.  This includes utopian societies and an extreme focus on scientific innovation.  Sci-fi movies also focus a lot of the movie on time and where the film is exactly set, whether that be someone going into the future (Back to the Future II and Tomorrowland) or going back in time (Terminator).  The setting may also differ a lot from natural settings that we are used to to show a key difference in the time period that the movie is set in, or where the movie takes place.  A lot of sci-fi films also feature futuristic weapons, even putting it on their movie poster to exemplify the futuristic elements of the film. 

          Sci-fi films stick to a similar narrative, following a protagonist that is trying to stop an evil force.  Movies like Life and Alien don't have a specific protagonist but do have the same evil that they are trying to defeat.  Sci-fi movies have many different sub-genres, and the one Klaus and I have decided on is a Post Apocalyptic genre.