Deciding on a Genre

The first step in this process would be deciding on the genre. The genre of the movie dictates the tone that I must create in the opening two minutes of my film. Frankly, I found myself lost in the process pf deciding a genre because of all the different ways single genre can take you. A drama film can be about a tragedy that has occurred to one of the characters or it can follow a high school drama a teenager is going through.
I started researching the different genres available and I came across a valuable chart that might aid me in my decision making process. A chart by visual.y gives a pretty much complete list of  genres that have ever been known along with their respective sub-genres. I was honestly surprised by the amount of sub-genres and this has helped me on further narrowing my choices down to a selective few. For example. If I end up going the route of an action movie, I would lean towards doing an Action Suspense-Thriller rather than a Jungle and Safari Epic, simply for the fact of my resources available. I don't know exactly what type of genre I'll be doing but I know have a clearer mind to what my options are.

"The Complete List of Film Sub-Genres." Visual.ly. N.p., 

26 Mar. 2012. Web. 12 Mar. 2016. 

     <http://visual.ly/complete-list-film-sub-genres>.