Filmmaking Tips - How to be a Film Maker ? "Know Your Video" - Part 1
Filmmaking Tips - How to be a Film Maker ? Know Your Video - Part 1 W hat is your video? One way to start to answer this question is to tell us your genre. Genre is the one-word descriptor that sets our exceptions for the video. Genres are most familiar to us in film, like action, horror, sci-fi, corrupt-cop-against-the-system, bio-pics, musicals, and sports stories. You probably know immediately which genres you love and which you can't stand. So does your audience, which is the point of thinking in genre. Genres come with certain built-in structures that the audience expects you to deliver. In the romantic comedy genre, two people "meet cute" and hate each other, fall in love,have enormous trouble based on an obstacle or misunderstanding, and then fall back in love again. Viewers love a romantic comedy that fulfills their genre exceptions in unexpected ways, with unexpected charm. But if it doesn't end happily, expectations are dashed...
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