Introduction

Hi, my name is Kevin Foughty and this is my blog for part of my AICE Media Studies final in which we create an opening for an original film. My group (Susan Hammond, Nicholas Gray, and Fares Eltoukhy) and I, plan on making a film that is a mix between the sci-fi and noir genres; hopefully the result is a movie similar to The Matrix or Blade Runner. In case you want to know more about me and my film going habits, my favorite genres are horror (recommendations: Evil Dead 2, The Thing, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) sci-fi (recommendations: Ghost in the Shell, Spaceballs, The Iron Giant,) mainly because both of these genres are diverse; with horror you can watch a found footage movie or a slasher flick and with sci-fi you can watch a movie about simulations or a movie about how bad the future will be. Since sci-fi is such as broad genre, my group and I felt it would be easier to do then some other genres as there are different options we can take each with their own conventions. For example, if we decided to do a film in the dystopian sub genre, we wouldn’t have to worry about showing spaceships flying or aliens invading since they are not a convention of the dystopian subgenre (which are oppressive government that is usually socialist and the rights of the people being stripped away). We chose the noir part because it can blend well with the sci-fi genre as evidenced with films such as The Matrix and Blade Runner due to the mystery surrounding surrounding the technology that is frequent in the sci-fi movies and mystery solving nature of the noir genre. Well, just like Darth Helmet and his crew did in Spaceballs, let’s go straight to “ludicrous speed.”