Genres
Types of film based on their content ,narrative and use of film form . Examples include horror, scifi, crime, comedy ,biopics, drama, action , superhero.....
Genres are used to classify films for the producers and the audience and link to production budgets, franchises , use of stars and directors, where and how a film is released and how it is experienced.
Conventions are the elements of the film such as film form , characters, narrative, setting, plot points and events that recur in certain genres and are expected by the audience e.g horror is often set at night, includes young female characters isolated and alone and contains fast-paced editing for jump scares and jarring music .
What Are Genre Conventions? (with pictures) (infobloom.com)
Audience expectations of a film are often based on its genre conventions and suggest the expected use of film form, narrative (events,structure and resolution ) , plot and character , mood and atmosphere.
Neale points out that genres evolve and change and are connected with audience pleasure.
A mixture of repetitive and predictable content and some unexpected or unfamiliar elements of is one of the main audience pleasures in experiencing film.
Films can also be classified under subgenres e.g slasher horror , whodunnit crime drama, romantic comedy or hybrid genres where a film contains conventions of at least two different genres es e.g rom zom com or comedy scifi ,
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Example : Alien v Star Wars
conventions, narrative and information
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