Genre

What is genre? Genre is the category a movie is defined as based on the theme the majority of the film presents.

How and why is it used? The genre for a song needs to take into consideration the audience, and what they are expecting based on the genre. The institution has a set of rule or guidelines to follow, to make the film meet the expectations of the genre. 

What is sub-genre? Sub genre is a more specific category within a genre, for example a Japanese horror or psychological thriller. 

What is a hybrid genre?A hybrid genre is combination of two main genres, for example horror-comedy.

The story line, the theme and the tone are all things associated with genre. The plot is especially important as the majority of scenes and occurrences must be relevant to the appropriate genre.  With different genres come different connotations. With action we associate fight scenes, a bad guy or group and a good guy or group, with a final fight that is what the climax of the film builds up to. Examples of action movies include 'Ava, 'Extraction', and 'The Hunt'. 

Horror films are films that are supposed to scare the audience or consumer, whether they like it or not. They tend to keep the audience on their tones using clever editing effects and also a scary soundtrack to go with it. Examples of horror movies are 'The Conjuring' (2013) and 'The Visit' (2015).

Thriller movies are also very popular and they consist of also fast action scenes (like found in an action movie) but also with more of an element of fear involved. My favourite thriller is 'The Purge', directed by James DeMonaco released in May 2013. 

Romance films are films that tell somebodies or two peoples love tale. They usually are films that tend to make people cry, or have a catch in them that tends to make the love that much more desperate to the audience. For example, the film 'The Fault In Our Stars' is a tragic love story between a boy with osteosarcoma and a girl who has lung cancer, and this twist allows the audience to sympathise with the two as they expect that one of them will die. 

Western films are films that are set in the late 19th century in the old west areas of America. These films consist of cowboy shoot-ups and bank robberies from robbers who ride horses. This genre has many very popular movies to it, for example 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' (1963). 

Sci-fi movies are futuristic movies that tend to display a future world or place with technology not of now. The sci-fi film genre has many block-buster, huge movies and franchises to it, for example the 'Back To The Future' trilogy, the 'Star Wars' franchise and 'Blade Runner'.