Genre

How we chose our genre:

First thing was to decide on a film title. As a group the first thing we did was to get a rough outline of a story and then work on a title, we chose to go with the story line of the man trying to get this key etc...
so thought of a couple of titles but we decided that the ones we where coming up with where a bit off putting, didn't follow the story or had no relevance. so then we thought of the name "The Key" its short, punchy, mysterious and relates to our film.
The only problem i think that this could have is that in cinemas if someone saw the title "The Key" would they be compelled to go and watch without reading about the film.

I looked into action thriller films and what people would expect from them this is what I found:

"Action thriller: In which the work often features a race against the clock, contains lots of violence, and an obvious antagonist. These films usually contain large amounts of guns, explosions, and large elaborate set pieces for the action to take place. These films often have elements of mystery films and crime films but these elements take a backseat to action." - Wikipedia.

Now reading this short piece from Wikipedia shows me that people like a lot of action in there action thriller films but with myself and my group wanting to take a lean towards the more "mystery" factor to these films as well as keeping the "action thriller" concepts, we sort or put the two genres together.