An Introduction to Film Genre

 An Introduction to Film Genre 🎞📽🎬

  Genre...

 is a category or style of art, music or literature 

Genres are used to establish relationships with the audience, and make the films more relatable and enjoyable. Using genres also makes it easier for writers.

Having an established genre gives the audience an idea and expectation of the film before they have watched it, and knowing the genre of a film may be the reason people watch it in the first place. 

 

Sub-genre...  

a subdivision (a smaller part) of a genre. 

a specific genre

they exist to meet peoples specific tastes- they have specific qualities to films within a broader genre

e.g. sub-genre of horror-  zombies 

 

 A hybrid genre... 

the combination of two or more genres (share conventions)

Hybrid genres exist to gives films a twist to them. People have expectations of genres, for example a horror movie is going to involve dark scary locations, death, people getting chased...

Having a hybrid genre gives people something familiar to watch in a genre (the horror movie expectations) but also subverts their expectations by giving them a new twist to keep the film interesting and give the audience something to get excited about. 

e.g. romantic comedy 

Conventions you associate with genre📹🎬:

ACTION- 

• high intensity and lots of energy
• lots of activity 
• stunts 
• running 
• fights and chases
• black costumes
• explosions...

(HYBRID GENRE OF THRILLER AND ACTION)

Year released-  2020

Director- Sam Hargrave

Studio- the Russo Brothers

ROMANCE- 

• fight in the relationship 
• something/ someone in the way of the relationship 
• crying 
• arguments 
• happy endings
• marriages
• divorces

Year released- 2017

Director- Luca Guadagnino

Studio- (production companies) - Frenesy Film Company La Cinéfacture RT Features M.Y.R.A. Entertainment Water's End Productions

WESTERN-

• cowboys 
• sheriffs 
• Americans 
• hot locations
• wilderness
• animals
  
  Year released- 2018

  Director- Jon Cassar

  Studio- (production companies) - Minds Eye Entertainment 
  
  
  
  

SCI FI-

• Time travel
• teleportation 
• Extraterrestrials
• different worlds
• parallel universes

Year released- 2016

Director- J Blakeson

Studio- (production companies) - Columbia Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures

HORROR

• fear of the unknown
• death
• darkness
• suspense
• music
• abandoned houses
• innocent children 
• a 'devil' 

Year released- 2017

Director- Andres Muschietti 

Studio- (production companies) - New Line Cinema, Vertigo Entertainment 

THRILLER

• victims
• the chase
• suspense
• anticipation
•  villans 
• heros 

 

Year released- 2020

Director- Todd Haynes

Studio- (production companies) - Participant & Killer Films