Genre
Genre is a French word that is the term
used for any category of literature and forms of art or entertainment e.g music
and film. Each genre has its own set of codes and conventions. Some examples of
genres in film would be horror, comedy, and animation. A sub genre is a deeper division
of a basic genre, for example, horror can be devised into
slasher/mystery/paranormal etc.
Here is a list of some commonly known
genres:
o Action & adventure
o Animation
o Comedy
o Crime
o Documentary
o Drama
o Family
o Horror
o Musical
o Romance
o Sci-fi
o Sport
o Thriller
o War films
o Westerns
Genres are useful for the general public as
it means they can choose a genre, and watch other films that fit into that
genre. for example, if someone watches a horror film and enjoys themselves,
this would mean that its easy for them to define other films they think they
would enjoy the other films advertised into the same genre category.
When people get into a certain genre such
as horror, they can go into the sub genres, and if group enjoy horrors, they
can begin to enjoy certain sub genres such as slashers, so whenever in the
cinema, a new slasher film is released, the group can easily assume that they
will enjoy it and be more likely to go the cinema to pay to see it, as the same
codes and conventions will appear in all of the same sub genres.
As well as people enjoying certain sub
genres, they can also grow to enjoy films of the same institution. By this I
mean that in horror, there are certain institutions such as ‘lionsgate’ that
make movies with similar codes and conventions, so if someone enjoys a movie by
that institution, they can assume that other films by the same institution will
be up to the same standard, meaning they’re more likely to pay to see that film
if its by the same institution.
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