Thursday, 3 October 2013

Genres

There are many different types of genres that are used in films and this was something that I had to consider based alongside my; budget, location, and interests. On this I have decided to make a psychological thriller about Jack the Ripper.
It was quite a large dilemma choosing what genre that I was going to use as there is such a large choice of film genres and sub film genres. Here are the different film genres:

  • Action and adventure
  • Animation
  • Biopics
  • Bollywood
  • British
  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Costume
  • Documentary
  • Drama
  • Family
  • Historical
  • Horror 
  • Music documentary
  • Musicals
  • Period and historical
  • Romance
  • Science fiction and fantasy
  • Short films
  • Sport
  • Thriller
  • War films 
  • Westerns
  • World cinema
Despite the large selection of genres available I was able to narrow it down to five main genres and then I compared and analysed the different conventions of each genre. These genres are; Action Adventure, Comedy, Historical, British, and Thriller.

Generic conventions of Action Adventure Films

  • There is usually a good blend of Good Vs Evil
  • Sequel
  • Violence, explosions, etc...
  • Fast paced
  • Love interest
  • Offer the audience a sense of escapism
Generic conventions of Comedy Films
  • Funny
  • Light
  • offers a sense of escapism
  • centered around the life of one person or a group of people
  • the main character(s) are clumsy, idiotic, or funnily unlucky
Generic conventions of Historical Films
  • Based on a true story
  • dramatised
  • to be historically accurate
  • to grip the audience
  • to be dark or enlightening depending on the period of History that the film highlights to allow the audience to get a proper sense of what it must have been like to be in that period of History
Generic conventions of British Films
  • To contain British slang
  • The British stereotypes must be exploited
  • Semi-improvised script
  • exploit the dark non-publicized aspect of British life
Generic conventions of Thriller Films
  • Thriller films share many of it's conventions with Action adventure films
  • Psychological 
  • Offers the audience a sense of escapism
The trailers of my favourite film of each of the genres that I highlighted.

Action Adventure - Skyfall


Comedy - Monty Python's Life of Brian


Historical - The Kings Speech


British - Snatch


Thriller - Inception


Psychological Thriller - Bronson


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