Genre Challenges

   Our group decided to go outside the box and comfort zone and chose to go in the genre of a musical. We noticed that all the other groups mainly chose to do a horror film which is basic. With stepping outside our comfort zone and exploring different genres, comes many challenges.

    One of the first challenges we are going to have to over come is the music of course! It wouldn't be a musical without music! This part is going to be a bit tricky because 1. we are composing our own music. and 2. we have to incorporate it into our film without making it look and have the affect of a music video. So how we are overcoming this is we decided to do a flash mob dance scene to our composed song. This is very common in musical films as I found while researching. We are making sure that the main character Mia is the only character lip singing the song so we don't have to have multiple voices recorded for our music.

   A challenge that we also will have to over come is musicals tend to have multiple amounts of extras and dancers. Well, there is only 3 of us in a group we thought this would be really hard. To hop over this crack in the road, I decided to ask about 15 of my dance friends to take part in this flash mob and luckily they said yes!

   Filming musicals, especially the flash mob scene is going to be quite hard. We are going to use multiple cameras and angles to create this look that we have envisioned. There are multiple genre challenges that come with musicals, but we are ready and excited to overcome them and create our master piece!!

   http://www.cinemablography.org/blog/the-musical-film-genre-capturing-the-magic-of-the-stage-on-the-screen
Above is a link about musical film genres: