Genre Research Part 2!
Fantasy
Today I researched a different genre. Although drama is my top genre to do, I also was interested in doing a fantasy movie. Fantasy is a genre about worlds where things that are impossible in real life actually happen. It uses imagination to build settings where the rules of nature and history are totally different from ours. The usual target audience for these films vary but the one I would be trying to reach is the teenagers and young adults, the ones who enjoy stories about people finding themselves.
Ideas
The fantasy film I wanted to create was a princess trapped in her own life. Even though she lives in a beautiful palace, she is stuck following strict rules to be perfect for everyone else. I wanted this to be a film where the princess finds out who she really is outside of her kingdom walls. This idea reminded me a lot of the Disney princess films. For example Jasmine in Aladdin or Merida in Brave. They were meant to live up to this expectation but decided to make decisions for themselves and figure out who they were on their own. Another one is Tangled, the main princess Rapunzel is locked away in a tower but manages to sneak out and explore her kingdom and find who she really is. My last inspiration was from the movie Mulan. Mulan was meant to be a "perfect bride" since that is what her family and other around her expected from her, but she did not want that. She fought in the war and discovered who she really was. Although those are animation movies, the theme I was going for is very similar to those films. If I choose to go with this idea, I would create the opening scene with my own imagination since I have not yet found a film that matches my idea. I want it to start where the girl is dreaming she is running in a field and living a normal life in a small cottage, but then cuts to her waking up in her palace stuck living this "perfect" life where she is expected to always be perfect.
Here is the trailer for the film I wanted to base my main theme on:
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