Drama, comedy, romance or suspense: how to pick a story style for your short film

Pick a style and Optiq Studio rolls a story nobody has told, with its own people, its own turn and its own ending. Each style does something different for the people watching.

• Drama: people we care about, a hard choice, a turn that makes you need to know how it ends.
• Comedy: a situation that gets worse in the funniest way; made to be shared.
• Romance: two people, what keeps them apart, and what brings them back.
• Suspense: something is wrong, and the audience knows it before the characters do.
• Triumph: someone counted out who does it anyway; the story people watch to the end and rewatch.
• Moral tale: a choice, its consequence, and the lesson the audience takes home.

Which to choose

For a channel, pick the style your audience comments on most and keep to it, so they know what they subscribed for. Mix in another now and then to see what they respond to. Not sure? Start with drama or triumph: they hold attention longest.