Choosing a genre to work with was actually more difficult than it sounds, this is because of how many genres there actually are and how difficult it is to work with most of them. We did a mind map of all the genres we could think of to help us choose what genre to work with on our film, here it is:
At first we had chosen to work with comedy, but Mr Hood was quite sceptical about it, so he set us homework to come up with an original joke that would make him laugh, long story short, everyone failed. However by doing this, it showed us how difficult it is to write comedy because everyone has a different sense of humour.
The next task we had to do was naming general conventions of genres Mr Hood said, by the end of this task the ones that had the most general conventions were thriller, horror and sci-fi. The genre that we chose to work with however was thriller, this is because horror and sci-fi require too much technology that we don't have. Thriller doesn't require as much technology as sci-fi.
