Genre of film

Now that I have looked at some relevant openings to films and picked out parts that interest me,
such as the shots that were used, I now have more of an idea of what I want from my film. However, I am still not entirely certain on what I want the genre of my film to be. After discussing with my partner for my task, Xiangyu, we have decided that we would like our film to be in the genre of detective or crime.

However, this is too vague and so therefore, in order to decide exactly what genre we desire the film to be, we have each conducted research into famous films from this type genre and decided which one we would most like to base our film on. This is important as our film could be part of a hybrid genre and so therefore looking at multiple films from this type of genre is necessary.

First of all, I wasn't very familiar with many crime or detective films, despoite the fact that I was intruiged by the genre. However, one of the series' that I had heard of was the detective series 'Sherlock Holmes'.
After doing some research on this website - www.filmsite.org/mysteryfilms.html, I found out more about the Sherlock Holmes filmes and that what I learnt was that most of the films were from 1940's, which I had not known previously. I also found out that there were many other famous and successful series' around this time such as 'The Thin Man' series, which started in the same year as Sherlock Holmes.
These films interested and Xiangyu. I also knew that if I wanted get an idea of whether or not we wanted to implement any of the elements of these films, I would have to research some clips from the film's of this time period in order to get an introduction into elements of the film that were used during the time these films were made.

Below is a video opening to one of Sherlock Holmes' most fims, Hound of the Baskervilles. From looking at the video opening to this film, and discussing with Xiangyu, we have concluded that there are parts of the film that we would choose to include in our film opening. The parts which interest us are the camera shots and the editing, even though we are not going to use this exact genre for our film. These were used to good effect in order to create tension and to show a clear view of the surroundings. We have chosen to include some of the shots from this in our film opening. However, what we have chosen to not include, are many parts of the mise-en-scene such as the clothes, as we felt that these did fit with the modern genre that we were trying to prouce. Also, we also use a younger cast in order to fit in with the intended audience, which will be from a younger age group.

Overall, although we have taken elements from this opening, I and Xiangyu have decided on a mystery/horror hybrid genre.