A major tweak and clarification

As previously mentioned in my blog, I told you guys that our film opening was to be perceived as a teen flick, directed towards the teenage target audience. 

Welp - we kind of changed our minds a little bit and I want to make our genre clear. 

It definitely incorporates the aspect of a teen flick but as we were editing, we realized that by adding a "This is where things go wrong" line creates a sense of drama. 

So I wanted to research the genre conventions for a drama film just in case I did not make this clear in previous posts. Since the voice over will have humor in it and relatable lines, the film opening will obtain the same target audience. 

Our overall genre for the film is called a teen drama. 

Even though the opening may make people laugh, it is mainly covering the relationship two young girls share and all of the time they spend together. This is to show that when one either gets seriously hurt or even passes away, the other will suffer as well. 

Drama's exhibit real life situations with realistic characters, settings and story lines. The purpose of a dramatic storyline is to move the audience emotionally. We are doing this by getting the audience to relate to the characters.

This film technique portrays real life in which the main characters enter conflict with themselves or others (which is what we are setting up in our opening). Our film opening is focusing on character development and interaction in order to create a real life feel without it looking like a documentary.