Week 1: Genre

     Oh boy, it's finally here.  The big end-of-the-year portfolio project that this blog was created for has arrived at last.  Over the span of about 8 weeks, my partner Sil Gamboa and I will be creating a 2-minute opening for a short film that we come up with.  The first step of this process is figuring out what genre we want our short film to be in, and fortunately, we've got that figured out already.

     Science fiction is a genre that most people should be familiar with, especially anyone who's been keeping up with this blog since I made a post about sci-fi already several months ago.  To give a fairly basic rundown, science fiction is a genre in which the story and setting revolves around some scientific or technological discovery or advancement that is probably impossible under our current understanding of science (hence the fiction part).  Most of them pretty much go: "hey, if this science-y thing existed, what would the social implications be?"  The main focus of the plot can revolve around anything from androids to aliens to diseases to opening hell-portals for faster than light travel.  The sky is essentially the limit when it comes to science fiction so long as fictional science can be used to explain whatever's going on.

     For a more in-depth description of science fiction and an analysis of various examples, please check out my previous posting on science fiction as a genre.

     We haven't nailed down exactly what the plot will revolve around yet, but we're in the process of brainstorming ideas.  In my next posting, I'll be discussing some examples of science fiction film openings.  See you then!