When looking at all the genres we could feasibly do for our opening, we decided to eliminate sci-fi as it would be to difficult to do without CGI or a large budget.
I never really wanted to do a comedy because that requires a good script with good comedy throughout and that’s out of my, or anyone in my groups, skill set.
For westerns, our location does not fit the theme of the West.
Having done two horror/thrillers already, my group and I decided against doing a third because we wanted to try something different.
The same problem for sci-fi happened for the action genre too. It requires too large a budget for us to make well.
Our Genre
Finally, we decided to make a drama, specifically a crime drama. Our location of Miami fit the genre and I thought we could make a good story and script with this genre. With all this taken into consideration, a crime-drama would let my group and I make the best film.
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