#2 genre
Time to make a decision, what genre will the video be. Me and my team are slowly settling in our previous idea for the video but nothing is official yet. However we have decided on two possible genres, drama, or dark comedy. These genres feel very opposite but I do think these are both very effective for telling such a mean spirited story.
Now drama feels the most obvious for this story, it is tackling a character who is putting on a facade to hide his insecurity, drama is perfect for showing the depths of a character without making what the story is trying to tell you super in your face. A big problem, however, is that for a good character drama, you need good actors. The opening would end with the main character having a breakdown and shouting at his dog to shut up which doesn't work and he is left there with his drugs crying, something like that isn't impossible to get out of people with no real acting experience (unless we go out of our way to hire good actors) but it is near impossible.
Our alternative for drama is dark comedy. One of my biggest inspirations, really to anything I make in general, is the video game Cruelty Squad (2021), it's a disgusting nightmare of a game that I adore. It notably has a very in-your-face style of humor, take the line "I've been getting really into 'Hell', both as a mindset and as something to strive for, in an organizational sense" this line is very on the nose but it works because of it's inherit irony, using something as dark as, the concept of Hell it self, as an inspirational corporate mindset. I want this kind of writing to be through out the whole opening. Comedy can help iron out your themes, at times because of how unsubtle it is and I think that can really work in a story as dark as this one.
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