Our primary focus would be that of the "Coming of Age" genre (CoA) with one of our major influences being the film Submarine (2010) about an awkward Welsh boy called Oliver Tate finding himself in the world. Our film would borrow many aspects from this muse, with our group hoping to make Craig a "gay Olvier Tate", however over time Craig grew and developed into a completely different person of his own. Another aspect of the film we wanted to borrow was its clear indie, home grown feel. This indirectly makes the film feel far warmer and has the audience side with the protagonist Oliver Tate through thick and thin. It makes the film easy to laugh and cry at, all at the expense of Oliver, which is exactly what a good CoA movie should aim to achieve. Therefore with our own movie we would be keen to mimic certain aspects of the film's aesthetic, such as costume and grading, in order to achieve the same warm feel as Submarine as this would make the audience side with Craig, which is a common convention of CoA films. In order to illustrate this, I have linked the US Trailer for Submarine below as I believe it is more true to the film than the UK trailer.
LGBTQ+
Another major genre under which our film would fall, would be the LGBTQ+ film genre, being that it has two gay male protagonists. Our main reference point for the LGBTQ+ film genre would be the American indie film Elephant (2003) about a school shooting in 90s, committed by two gay young men. Elephant primarily gave us a strong sense of structure and titling in opening sequences and thus our group mainly sought inspiration in this area from Elephant. Firstly, Elephant super imposed it's titles over shots of the sky, which our group really liked, so we decided to pay homage to this by having one of our film's titles superimposed on the sky. Its titles also informed us about which order the various institutions and creative talents in our titles should appear in and thus we closely followed their order of crediting in the opening sequence. We also sought inspiration from Elephant when it comes to the overall structure of our opening sequence, with the basic structure of titles, followed by a short "mini scene" and then a title. This basic structure we then broke down into a timeline of events which we wanted to incorporate into our storyboard further down the line. Below is a sample of the opening credits as a looping gif.
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