Genre

Genre is the type of movie category it belongs to and explains what type of movie it is for example the genre Action tells the audience that the film features violence and excitement.

Genres allow as escaping from life for example scarcity, exhaustion and alienation by watching films that interest us by their use of factors and themes by the use of fictional narratives, energetic presence, and intense moments.

Conventional: What you expect from the genre for example a action should contain props of guns or other weapons

Unconventional: What you would not expect from the genre for example a drama containing fantasy.

These are three examples of genres and what it would normally include-

Genre: Thriller

Location: Empty shadowy house

Characters: Good and Bad, victims, police

Camera movement: Panning shot, crane shot

Narrative: Stories whose central struggle pits an innocent hero against a lethal enemy who is out to kill him or her or stories whose central struggle is about catching a criminal

Lighting: Low-key

Sound: Gun shots diegetic

Props: Guns, Knifes

Editing: Montage

Genre: Romance

Location: City life for example New York and Paris

Characters: Boys and Girls

Camera movement: Panning shot, tracking, long shot, close up

Narrative: Stories whose central struggle is between two people who each want to win or keep the love of the other

Lighting: High-key

Sound: Soft non-diegetic music

Props: Flowers

Editing: Wipe shot

Genre: Action

Location: Jungle

Characters: Good and Bad, gangsters, police, innocent

Camera movement: tracking shot, reaction shot, crane shot

Narrative: Stories whose central struggle plays out mainly through a clash of physical forces

Lighting: Back Lighting

Sound: On-screened explosions

Props: Guns

Editing: Fade to black

List of genres and film examples:

• Drama- Dramas are hard emotional driven narratives, showing realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction for example teenage life and mid-life crisis. Normally dramas are not on comedy, or action. Drama is most likely the only genre which can have the most narratives for example also telling real stories. Seen below "Taxi Driver"

• Action- Action films are normally high-paced, dangerous physical stunts and chases, rescues, battles, fights, escapes, destructive hazards, and adventurous task to complete their own goals, heroes vs villains. Action films allow the audience to enjoy themselves which create escapism. Sub-genres may sci-fi, horror and thriller. Seen below "Die Hard".

• Gangster- Crime commonly known as gangster films are developed around the devious actions of criminals or mobsters, for example bank robbers, underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums who do not follow the law, stealing and murdering their way through life to gain higher power. Criminal genre is also categorized as a thriller by the police trying to uncover the mysteries of the gangsters who create tension throughout the whole narrative. This is shown in the “Goodfellas” link below.

• Historical- Historical genres are mainly involved between drama, war, and true stories. Epics often use adventure as a sub-genre they also take an historical or imagined event, mythic, legendary, or heroic figure, create a new narrative to the film. In this link below it shows the “Glorious 39”.

• Romance- A romance is a genre that confines with drama and comedy. Most of these narratives are love stories, or affairs of the heart that of passion, emotion, and the romantic, affectionate involvement of the main characters. This is shown in the romance below “Kontroll”.

• Thriller- Thrillers are a genre which involves itself with others for example action, crime, sci-fi, horror, and adventure; thrillers can almost include itself in any given genre. Thrillers offer suspense and tension to create intense excitement towards the audience. In the link below “Enemy of the State" is a clear example of a thriller. 

• Comedy- Comedies are designed to create humour, amuse and provoke laughter by exaggerating the situation, the language, action, relationships and characters. Comedy can involve itself with other genres by creating "serious humour" in the worst and dangerous situations. The link below shows "Rush Hour".

• Science fiction- Sci-fi are visionary and imaginative which narrative completes with heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology, unknown and unknowable forces, and extraordinary. They are sometimes involved with fantasy and action/adventure genre. This is shown in the link below “Blade runner”.

• Horror- Horror films based to frighten/scare and to uncover our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking narrative. Horror films feature a wide range of styles. They are often combined with sci-fi when a mutated monster is related to a corruption of technology, or when Earth is threatened by aliens. There are many sub-genres of horror slasher and thriller. In the link below it shows "The day after tomorrow ".