Genres

List of genres;

  • Crime
  • Thriller
  • Disaster
  • Epics
  • European
  • independent
  • Kids
  • Animals
  • Teen
  • Family
  • Short
  • Bollywood
  • True story
  • Adventure
  • Film noir
  • Factual
  • Fiction
  • Silent
  • Si-fi
  • Dance
  • Animation
  • Drama
  • Historical
  • War
  • Coming-of-age
  • Western
  • Documentary
  • Gangster
  • Sport
  • Spoofs
  • Comedy
  • Musical
  • Chick-flick
  • Special effects showcase
  • Art
  • Spy

Codes and conduct within genres

Action;

  • Fast pace
  • Explosions
  • Dramatic music
  • Helicopter shots
  • Wide shots followed by a dramatic low angle mid shot
  • Weapons
  • fights

Horror/thriller;

  • Slow pace followed by fast editing when the drama happens
  • Dark blue/grey (occasionally red) grading
  • Dark picture
  • Lightning
  • Old house
  • Night time
  • Torrential rain
  • Unexplainable noises

Comedy;

  • Light places, location may be a normal day to day location e.g. house, supermarket, coffee shop
  • Nutralistic camera work and editing to show no character is better
  • Clear sound
  • Natural light with bright colours that portray happiness
  • Props that my hurt a character and other incidents that would usually hurt a person allot

Romance/rom-com;

  • Aimed at female audience
  • Boy meets girl storyline
  • Normal day to day life
  • Bright natural colours
  • Slow pace editing

Drama;

  • Real life events
  • Journeys or character development
  • Audience can relate to characters
  • Tension kept by the use of climaxes and anti climaxes

Si-fi;

  • Space
  • Advanced technology
  • Aliens/creatures
  • Dramatic noises/music

Disaster

  • A large disaster (usually natural)
  • dramatic sounds
  • fast editing
  • relatable characters
  • a main character portraied as a hero that never dies
  • special effects
  • destruction
  • panic
  • dark and green/grey/blue grading

Epics

  • large budgets
  • full of action
  • lots of modern technology (loads of CGI)
  • usually a main heroic character (usually white male) saves everyone