(Research by: Riffah Munir and Zainab Zahid)
It is true that identifying genre's helps establishing your audience. Genre may be defined as category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style or subject matter. Genre usually classifies the different codes and conventions and the iconography associated with different themes that make up what we call 'GENRE'.
Though there are many different genres in Film making however the ones i really like include Romantic films, Comedy, Action,Horror and drama.
Romantic:
The first picture is a poster of the famous film 'Titanic',second is the poster of 'Twilight' and the third picture is also a poster of the film 'The Vow.
This screen shot from titanic shows the chemistry and emotional bond that is shared by the main characters. This is an important element of the romantic films.
Similarly this screen shot shows the emotion of happiness.
It is true that identifying genre's helps establishing your audience. Genre may be defined as category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style or subject matter. Genre usually classifies the different codes and conventions and the iconography associated with different themes that make up what we call 'GENRE'.
Though there are many different genres in Film making however the ones i really like include Romantic films, Comedy, Action,Horror and drama.
Romantic:
According to my understanding, Romance films are those that revolve around two main characters that share an emotional bond. This genre aims to provoke strong emotional feelings amongst the audience. These movies may not specifically be about love at first sight but also forbidden love,love triangles and sacrificial love. For example, Titanic, twilight,Vow are famous films that are counted under this category.
The first picture is a poster of the famous film 'Titanic',second is the poster of 'Twilight' and the third picture is also a poster of the film 'The Vow.
All the three films are considered to be of the romantic genre as the three follow the code and conventions that have already been recognized for romantic films.This would include innocent expressions,love chemistry between the two characters, helplessness,tragedy, happiness and some drama.
Following are some screen shots from the movie titanic that depict the above mentioned codes of a romantic film:
This picture depicts the feeling of sadness.
Similarly when it comes to Iconography, the lead actresses wear flowy and colorful clothes. High key lighting is used to show happy moments in a scene whereas low key lighting maybe used to show sadness and gloominess in a scene.
Similarly, flowers, wedding rings are common props used in this genre.
Comedy:
Comedy is a genre that uses humor,fun,laughter as a driving force.The basic aim is to provide entertainment to the audience in the form of lighthearted stories and funny characters. Comedy genre comes in two formats:Comedian led comedy or situational comedy and can further be sub categorized as romantic-comedy, thriller-comedy etc.
Famous films of this genre include Ted, thats my boy and a thousand words.
The three above mentioned films are all situational based.
Action:
After watching Inception, the dark knight rises i deduced that the typical conventions of an action based movie would include the following elements:
weapons,fights,missions & motives,hi-tech,massive destruction, femme fatale.
Action movies are not realistic.The cast would always include the main protagonist(main character) and several helpers.The locations used are also such that are very challenging and worsen the conditions for the hero.
Few action movies such as batman, superman have super heroic characters
Horror:
Films like Insidious and Paranormal are part of this genre. Each film has some common element of violence and fear and some sort of super natural existence such as demons etc.
The pictures above show the existence of super naturals.
Cinematography plays a very important role in this genre. Very expressive camera angles are used and POV shots are very prominent to create the desired effect.both digetic and non digetic sounds are used.
such films are set in small communities or isolated places.
High usage of dark colours like black, red blue is prominent in all movies of this genre.
Drama:
According to Wikipedia A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes.
Famous films of this genre include Ted, thats my boy and a thousand words.
The three above mentioned films are all situational based.
Action:
After watching Inception, the dark knight rises i deduced that the typical conventions of an action based movie would include the following elements:
weapons,fights,missions & motives,hi-tech,massive destruction, femme fatale.
Action movies are not realistic.The cast would always include the main protagonist(main character) and several helpers.The locations used are also such that are very challenging and worsen the conditions for the hero.
Few action movies such as batman, superman have super heroic characters
Horror:
Films like Insidious and Paranormal are part of this genre. Each film has some common element of violence and fear and some sort of super natural existence such as demons etc.
The pictures above show the existence of super naturals.
Cinematography plays a very important role in this genre. Very expressive camera angles are used and POV shots are very prominent to create the desired effect.both digetic and non digetic sounds are used.
such films are set in small communities or isolated places.
Drama:
According to Wikipedia A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes.
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