Horror
- · Tense music
- · Ability to manipulate audience
- · Gore/ jump scares
- · Jaws
- · Roots- literature (Frankenstein)
- · Silent films – universal films
- · Iconic psycho shower scene
- · 1960’s Hitchcock- the shining (psychological)
- · Hybrid- comedy/teen/monster/slasher
- · The rocky horror picture show- combines horror, comedy and musical
- · Old horrors are now being remade to a better standard
- Supernatural is now seen as scary
Action and adventure
- · Fast plots with excitement
- · Recognisable structure
- · Good vs. evil
- · Hero is usually male
- · Overcome odds
- · Characters work towards goals
- · Special effects
- · High budgets and large amounts of merchandise
- · Great train robbery- first action film
- · 60’s James Bond style movies
- · 80’s big Hollywood blockbusters
- · Fast and furious/ avengers/ James Bond
- · Include sub genres e.g. Mr and Mrs smith includes action, comedy and romance
- · 2000’s females started to have bigger roles creating a wider appeal
Romantic comedy
- Appeals to mainstream audience
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Usually involves a relationship between a male
and female character
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Film progresses and the characters fall out and
then fall in love
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Usually has a happy ending
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Witty jokes
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Usually a mentor character
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Funny best friend
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Light hearted
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History relates back to Shakespeare ‘much ado about nothing’
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First romantic comedy ‘ trouble in paradise‘
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Iconic examples,’ breakfast at Tiffany’s’,
‘Pretty woman’
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Popular genre
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Not many changes in the genre over time
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Usually all have a similar plot
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A few films flip the main conventions such as
‘500 days of summer’ and ‘pitch perfect’
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Deal with more serious issues within the film-
making people more aware
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Hybrid genre itself- often combined with
tearjerker sub-genre as well as fantasy.
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