Discussion on Scenario choices

1. A supernatural thriller with a strong female lead.
This scenario stood out straight away as we have already spent several weeks studying thriller conventions and analysing opening sequences, thus this would be an ideal choice for us given we have previous knowledge of the genre and this could give us a helpful head-start in to the project, though, that being said we have no previous knowledge of supernatural thrillers other than what us in the group have seen ourselves, also, we have no female member of the group to complete the scenario as it has been told to us, this being the main reason we cannot use this for our project, though it will have been an ideal choice otherwise.

2. A British social realist drama.
Here we have pasted a definition for Social Realism in films for ourselves as we do not know of this genre ourselves, and have had to look it up before we could discuss it.
"Social realism in films is representative of real life, with all its difficulties. The stories and people portrayed are everyday characters, usually from working class backgrounds. Typically, films within the social realist canon are gritty, urban dramas about the struggle to survive the daily grind." This definition being applied to solely a British way of life defines this scenario, though, our group has little if any knowledge of this genre and as such will have to spend time looking up conventions whereas with other genres we would not have to do as much work to provide a successful opening scene for the scenario, as with many other genres we have previous experience of, or at least knowledge of the genre from watching relevant films and so can get on with our work a lot more quickly and efficiently and will only have to research the more complex conventions of whichever genre and scenario we choose to use in our opening scene project.

3. An adventure story for younger audiences.
This scenario is a possibility, though it does not instantly appeal to anyone in our group their are no limitations holding us back in terms of group size and there are many locations close-by where we could set an adventure film, such as a wooded area that from within could look secluded and mysterious to a younger audience, though we are not settled on this idea, we could do it and are not limited by anything within our group or location.

4. A teenage romantic comedy.
This idea did not appeal to our group, given our particular tastes of movies are not based around this genre and would therefore limit our knowledge and make it all the more difficult for us to produce this as an opening scene, that said, we are also limited by the group again we have no female member and a romantic comedy generally involves a romance between a male and a female.

5. A crime caper with an ensemble cast.
This instantly seemed to be a possibly enjoyable scenario for us to do for the project, especially as crime capers usually have an element of comedy to make the crime part of the genre look lighthearted and give the protagonists a likable feel to them, whereas a simple crime film may not portray the main characters as likable or heroic or at least positively influencing characters, though, much like with the first choice we are limited by there being on 3 people in our group especially as one of us will have to be operating the camera when we film, leaving little possibility to make a crime caper with an ensemble cast as best as we could, given three characters - if we could somehow get all of us in a shot - would only barely, if at all make the project eligible to be called an crime caper with ensemble cast.