Planning:Initial Ideas on Choosing a Film Genre

In this post I will be carefully choosing the different types of genres and making sure I am going to pick the right one. Bearing in mind, I have very low experience, low budget and limited filmmaking ability to execute effectively. The genres have been described in the previous post, and here they are listed:

• Action
• Adventure
• Animation
• Biopic
• Comedy
• Crime
• Documentary
• Drama
• Fantasy
• Historical
• Horror
• Musical
• Romance
• Science Fiction
• Thriller
• War 
• Westerns

I had a lot of initial thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of creating an opening two minutes on the certain genre, here they are:

• Action - Would need to have a lot of fighting scenes, explosions, fast pacing etc to make it interesting for the audience. Can be done on a low budget but needs to look expensive to look successful. Would need a suitable storyline, location, and actors.
• Adventure - Links in with Action, can be done but storyline will need to be on a journey to accomplish something, may need a little but more investing in finance. 
• Animation - Expensive, time consuming, I do not contain high skills in animating, I am not sure if I could manage making rough Computer Generated Imagery(CGI) against live action, but to make a wholly animated film would take a lot more. Also at a low budget it wouldn't look very good anyway. Therefore making an animated opening two minutes wouldn't be a success.
• Biopic - I do not believe I have the practicality for this genre, as the requirement is to have a very specific storyline, and the locations and actors are also very specific, which, not only limits my creativity, but also is extremely high budget. The limits for this genre are very high, and therefore making an opening for this wouldnt work as well.
• Comedy - In order for it to be successful, it needs to be funny. If its not funny, it won't be successful. Its very risky and high humour would be needed to be involved. They can be made on a low budget, and technically they are easy, but it's just the small issue of having to make it funny that brings it down. Need an original idea on what do make.
• Crime - A mix of drama, action, and thriller. Could be done.
• Documentary - A documentary would be very easy to make; they could be about anything! I don't want to do a genre that is too easy, and isn't very interesting anyway. Documentaries limit your creativity more than any other genre, and I don't want that sort of limit. Would need to look at specific target audience and who would be interested in the documentary.
• Drama - Would not be focused on special effects, comedy or action. It is serious. Would involve intense character development and interaction, so actors need to be experienced enough so shots wouldn't have to be taken a numerous amount of times to save time.
• Fantasy - Expensive and requires a lot of editing.
• Historical - Expensive, a lot of equipment would need to be bought. Every tiny detail has to be in tune with the period in which the film is set, and that requires huge amounts of money! It also includes a lot of research into language, culture, clothing etc, and would take a lot more planning than the time available, this genre also limits creativity.
• Horror - They are very hard to make, and make well. Even in the professional film business horrors are hard to make very well, and very few of them receive critical acclaim. Horror films have to have a scare factor otherwise they are not successful, and when it comes to amateurs trying to scare an audience, the success rate is not very high. It would fall back far too heavily on cliches, and would lack a personal flourish to it, which is essential in being successful.
• Musical - I could make a musical, except for the fact that I have to write my own songs, perform them, record a backing track, and choreograph dance.
• Romance - I don't think I would be able to show enough filmmaking techniques, and I don't think it would stretch me enough. I cannot include kissing/sex scenes.
• Sci-fi - Science fiction is a very expensive genre. It requires a lot of sound effects and money, and although I can handle a small amount of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI), I don't think I could handle a full on science fiction film. I don't want our film to look cheap, and I think that by doing science fiction it would look very cheap.
• Thriller - Linking into Action, it can be low budget but needs to look expensive to be successful. Films from this genre are high budgeted. Would need a suitable storyline, location, and actors. 
• War - Would need a lot of editing, a lot of space to film and would be expensive.
• Western - I have no knowledge or ever seen a Western film, would be expensive and not willing to do it.

So, in my initial thoughts I have eliminated most of the genres from my list, which are: adventure, animation, biopic, documentary, drama, fantasy, historical, horror, musical, romance, sci-fi, war and western . The ones that I have chosen to go into deeper thoughts of doing are: Action, comedy, crime, and thriller.