Genre

What is Genre?
Genre comes from the French word meaning "Type" or "Class" but this specific word in generally used in film terminology. In film, genre is a specific type of film that has distinct code and conventions which cannot be mistaken as a different type of genre. For example, the obvious code and conventions of Romance is wedding bells, hearts and flowers that generally are associated love. Whereas, the typical code and conventions of Action is rescues, battles, chases, destructive crises which highly differs from the typical code and conventions shown in the Romance genre.

What is a sub-genre?
Sub-genre is self-explanatory from the name but it is simply a sub category within a genre. An example of this is Rom-Com(Romance Comedy) has the typical code and conventions as Romance but overlaps with some of the typical code and conventions of Comedy thus films like "Sex and the City" and the "Bridget Jones's Diary" film series. The difference between Romance and Rom-Com is that most romantic gestures in Rom-Com happen in a rather funny matter rather than clear intimacy shown in typical Romance films.


Evaluation- what I learnt
These definitions make me realise if I want to incorporate all the code and conventions in my Thriller opening sequence or conforming to the code and conventions of a hybrid genre of another sect of the genre of Thriller. This will be achieved successfully through the intensive amount of trailers and films watched and analysed on different spectrum of the thriller genre to give my group an idea of what exactly we want as an initial idea of our opening sequence.