According to http://www.filmsite.org/ it gives a more detailed definition of " Film genres are various forms or identifiable types, categories, classifications or groups of films that are recurring and have similar, familiar or instantly-recognizable patterns, syntax, filmic techniques or conventions - that include one or more of the following: settings (and props), content and subject matter, themes, mood, period, plot, central narrative events, motifs, styles, structures, situations, recurring icons (e.g., six-guns and ten-gallon hats in Westerns), stock characters (or characterizations), and stars. Many films are considered hybrids - they straddle several film genres."
For my coursework I will focus on a genre to make my film easier and more clear to understand. I done research on the most common and main film genres.
- Comedy
- Drama
- Science Fiction
- Thriller
- Crime and Gangster
- Action
- Horror
- Romantic
- Adventure
- Musicals
- Epics/Historicals
- War
- Western
Horror
Horror Films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale.
Horror films deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden worst fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown.
Aim: Scare viewers, while entertaining them at the same time.
Themes/Elements: Monsters, Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolfs, Zombies, Haunted houses, Demons
Many of the films have age restrictions due to their graphic.
Examples: Frankensein, The Mummy, Dawn of the Dead, Saw.
Comedy
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour
The comedy genre humorously exaggerates the situation, the language, action, and characters.
Aim: To make audience laugh by enteraining or being silly.
Themes/Elements: day-day life, family, pranks, situations, protagonists, schools, house, office
They normally have a happy ending.
Examples: Alfie, Clueless, Honey I shrunk the Kids, Daddy Day Care.
Adventure
Adventure film are exciting films that feature exciting locations and new experiences.
They are similar to action films as they provide energetic moments but viewers are more fascinated with the travels, explorations, journeys rather than violence and fighting.
Aim: Persuade viewer to live vicariously through the adventurous world.
Themes/Elements: Maps, rulers, fantasy worlds, creation of empires, pirates, mission, ancient, the impossible.
Examples: The African Queen, Lawrence of Arabia, Back to the Future, The Lost World, Pirates of the Caribbean.
Other gernres that have been taken into consideration and often classified as Sub-Genre
- Disaster
- Guy Films
- Fantasy
- Biographical
- Sports
- Supernatural
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