Task 9- What is genre?

Genre

A genre is a way of distinguishing a type of film by its common features and a way of describing and categorising different forms of media like film and television. The different types of genres are romance, comedy, horror, thriller and actions. There are also hybrid genres. This is when two different types of genres combine to make one, for example rom-coms.
They are extremely vital when making movies because through genre, codes and conventions are easier to establish giving a pattern for construction, acting almost like a template. It also allows the audience to identify and choose what they may specifically prefer which means that production have a type of audience they can market to.

Altman was a media theorist who stated that film genre can be talked about in two ways.
1) Syntactic (macro) –This is the story that the films tell us
2) Sementatic (micro)- How these stories are presented
He observed that films from the same genre tend to tell the same sorts of stories and have the same character types and themes and also look a similar way by having similar camera, editing, sound techniques, and using common mise-en-scene.

In the movie mean girls,the genre is high school. Its mains codes and conventions are bright colours, a group of girls and is mostly set in a high school,the mall and the protagonists home are also locations which are used throughout. The main storyline would revolve around a girl facing her teenage struggles throughout the year such as boy problems and conflict with another group pf teenage girls which are usually popular.My favourite high school movies include mean girls,clueless ad bring it on.





In horror movies,the genre is usually hinted to the audience with slow paced eerie non-deiegtic music which then fastens as it builds suspense.The storyline would typically involve either a haunted house or characters/props being possessed.The setting is usually dark and there also vulnerable females. Jump cuts are also used very commonly in horror moviesThey may also sometimes include a group of friends getting murdered one by one as they try to escape.In this particular movie,a doll s possessed and creates problems for a couple.