I made a brainstorm of ideas about which genre of film would be most appropriate for my film trailer:
When considering what genre my film trailer could be, I thought about whether it would be suitable for my target audience by looking at the questionnaire, and which was the most popular. Also what was achievable in terms of budget and special effects in the trailer.
The questionnaire showed that the most popular genre of films with my target audience is social realism, horror and action/adventure.
Plot Idea 1
Social realism and indie film, similar to Submarine or . Because of the fairly young target audience the main character should about their age and going through similar experiences to them to make it relatable, maybe a coming of age story.Nearly all indie films all have tropes, and reoccurring themes in them, so using these would help make a successful film. Most 'coming of age' stories have a fairly unpopular protagonist (e.g. Juno, Submarine and The Breakfast Club). But to make it unique it could be based on a girl obsessed with video games, particularly MMO games like World of Warcraft. This could also appeal to a predominately female audience because there is a massive assumption that most gamers are boys, so showing a girl playing video games could be very popular. Also 'nerd' culture is one of the most popular cultures around today, so there could be a massive audience interested in the film purely because it features video games.
A teenage girl is obsessed with online video games, and it's slowly taking over her whole life. At college, she has a crush on a girl, but finds that she can barely talk to anyone outside of the video game she plays. So she enlists the help of her Guild (group of friends she plays with online) to help her talk to the girl she likes. However they are not helpful and try and convince her to keep on playing. But she ignores them and gets the courage to actually talk to her. When talking to her, she realizes that the girl is interested in games too. The two start playing together, but the protagonist's guild is under attack from their rival, and the two girls and the rest of the Guild battle against them. After a tense battle, the girl's Guild win.
Visually it could be similar to Scott Pilgrim vs the World, which uses elements of video games and comics. Like Scott grabs 'a life' from the sky:
Plot Idea 2
As mystery was very popular on the questionnaire I could maybe add that genre to a normal indie film to make it more intriguing.
There was a huge storm in a small town, and a girl (by herself in a remote part of town) got caught up in it. She collapses maybe and wakes up when the storm has passed, she discovers she has the ability to rewind time. She confines with her friend who was skeptical at first about her new found power but supports her. But it's revealed that she wasn't the only one affected by the storm and other mysteries have occurred, and people have gone missing. So she uses her ability to investigate what really happened, and what the storm was.
Her ability to change time could have a similar effects as the 'The Butterfly Effect', so every time she alters a timeline it has consequences later on, and she comes to realise that somethings are a fixed point in time (like the storm which she finds out she can't go back and prevent from happening).
Plot Idea 3
A detective mystery inspired by films like The Big Lebowski and The Usual Suspects, as a sort of Neo-Noir film.
A girl is waiting to meet up with a friend and witnesses someone getting kidnapped but as she goes for help she is knocked unconscious. When she wakes, she is back at her house with the friend who found her knocked out on the street, she tells her friend about what she saw and they both go to the police. The police say that it isn't the first disappearance and multiple people have gone missing in a small space of time. But the police don't seem to be doing much about it so the girl is determined to find out what is happening herself.
The memory loss and mystery is a recurring theme in a few neo noir films, such as Mulholland Drive and Memento, so I have chosen to make the story similar to that.
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