Genres 48HFPmachinima 2012

The genres for 2012 for the Project48Machinima are:


At the Kickoff Event, each team draws one of these genres by choosing a number.
Each number correspondents with a numbered (sealed) envelope.
The draw is done in Second Life, so teamleaders are required to create an avatar and be present at the kickoff, on March 30, 7 pm.
NB: You can choose which kickoff: USA (San Francisco)- Australia (Sydney) - European (Amsterdam)
After genres have been selected, filmmakers will be given the option to trade in their genre for a Wild Card Genre. Once you switch, you can't switch back!

•Comedy
•Dark Comedy
•Detective/Cop
•Drama
•Fantasy
•Film de Femme (see below)
•Horror
•Mockumentary
•Musical or Western
•Romance
•Sci Fi
•Thriller/Suspense
•Vacation or Holiday Film

If you are the lucky team that draws Musical or Western, you have the choice of making either a Musical or a Western. Or a Musical Western. (Or even a Western Musical!)

As machinima depends for a greater part on voice-work, we are not including the Silent Genre for machinima.

Your film must be true to the genre you have selected—and no trading with other teams! You may combine genres (e.g., a silent comedic buddy film).

2012 Wild Card Genres will be chosen from these:

•Adventure Serial
•Buddy Film
•Coming of Age
•Family Film
•Period Piece
•Road Movie
•Time Travel Movie

Film de Femme
Never heard of a Film de Femme? That's because we invented it! This genre is specifically designed by the 48HFP to encourage strong roles for females in 48HFP films. A Film de Femme is a film featuring one or more strong female characters. Romantic comedies or "chick flicks" are included in this genre, but are only a subset.
What's a strong female character? Think Ellen Page in Juno, Salma Hayek in Frida, Reese Witherspoon in Election, or Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich. Smart and complicated. Try to avoid having a woman doing a man's job like a man would do his job. And contrary to public opinion, strong women characters are not required to kill someone!

Genres, prop, line and character are........

MACHINIMA 2010 REQUIRED ELEMENTS

Character

Jackie or Jack Schmidt
Journalist


Prop

Water



Line of Dialogue

“There is one thing I can do that you can’t.”




The teams and the genres they drew:


 Horror - Machinimatrix
 Film noir - Grey Matter Films
 Road movie - Jewell Theatre
 Sci fi - WarTechnica
 Buddy film - IdeaJuice Studios
 Silent film - Fluent Media Productions
 Romance - Metaverse Television
 Fantasy - NicolleX Group
 Musical or western - Tough Question
 Film de femme - Running Ladies Productions
 Romance - Ninja Bandits
 Buddy film - Sound’r
 Film de femme - Moondust Films
 Sci fi - In Limbo
 Mockumentary - Rediculous Sandwich Studios
 Musical or western - Dream Machine
 Drama - Insomaniacs
 Horror - Stone Falcon Productions
 Dark Comedy - Kamachina Productions
 Time Travel or Doppelganger - M4SK22
 Time Travel or Doppelganger - Machinimart