R&P Post 6: Our chosen genre and how we plan to connote this

The genres we have chosen for our film are:

• British Indie
• Drama
• Romance
• Coming of Age

British Indie: To connote this we will use the grading (orange and blue) to give it a slight sepia and cold feel. Some British Indie films focus on less mainstream topics. Arguably the best mainstream film focusing on gay people was 'Brokeback Mountain'  which was created over ten years ago in 2005.

A very well known drama

Drama: To connote this we will focus on the main idea of what the genre of drama is which is serious in tone focusing on the development of realistic
characters who have to deal with real and emotional struggles. For example, our protagonist has to deal with the fact that he is gay and the struggles this creates for him.

Romance: The conventions are a 'boy meets girl' scenario which we have changed to 'boy meets boy'. A romance film follows a romantic journey in which the lovers have to overcome many obstacles which we show in our opening as one of them is verbally and physically abused.

Boyhood- a very famous coming of age film

Coming Of Age: This is a sub genre for our film. The conventions of it are focusing on a person transitioning from childhood, through adolescence to adulthood-but we focus on our characters transitioning only from being a teenager to young adult and learning more about themselves. Coming Of Age films also tend to emphasise dialogue and internal monologues over the action both of which we have used in our opening.