The document discusses choosing a genre for a storyline. It explains that knowing the genre enables the use of basic conventions and helps relate the story accordingly. The genre also helps identify the target audience. The document analyzes the genres of drama and thriller, noting their conventions like realistic settings, characters and situations for drama and emphasized danger for thrillers. It determines drama was the best choice given available resources to create realistic settings and a storyline people could relate to.

1. Genre
Research

2. Before drafting our storyline it is important that we
know what genre we will be using, this will enable us
to use basic conventions of that genre and interrelate
it into our story accordingly; it will also help us have
a clearer idea of who our target audience is, for
example if we were to create an action film we would
aim our film at a older target audience i.e. 15

4. Relatable Realistic Evokes
characters settings emotion
Dramatic
themes
Drama
Convent
Conventions
Realistic Conflict
situations Realistic
between
storyline
characters

5. Highly
emphasised
Non- diegetic climax
music
Jump
cuts
Thriller
Convent
Conventions
Emphasised Protagonist normally
danger faces- a mission, an
escape or a mystery

6. Based on our research we decided
that Drama was the best genre to
use because we had all the
possible resources such as
‘realistic settings’ and we
could all relate to a dramatic
storyline. We shortlisted both
the genres Thriller and Drama
because they were both genres we
could do based on our limited
resources however Drama was the
overriding one for us. Other genres we could have
chosen if we had a greater
budget and resources:
• Science fiction
• Horror
• Action