Films are put into genres depending on common, repeating conventions. Each genre has a list of conventions which an audience would expect to see within a movie of this type; a film does not have to contain all of the conventions of each genre to be labeled but it must have at least a few of the obvious ones. Genres help to classify films for both a creator and a consumer, helping to target a specific niche audience.
Genres change over time, emerge and often become hybrids of two or more genres, for example, Rom Com films. The convections can be to do with: content, themes, mood, peiod, plot, setting, props (mise en scene) and recurring iconigraphy.
Some of the classic, primary film genres are as follows:
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Crime
- Drama
- Horror
- Musical
- Sceince Fiction (Sci-Fi)
- War
- Western
Our project is specific to film trailers, each genre also has a list of codes and conventions which should/ could appear within a film of a specific genre. Most film trailers are meant to give the audience some kind of insite into the following headings: setting, characters, genre, atmosphere and narrive. This will show an audience what type of film they are going to see and therefore they can deduce wether they would like to see the actual movie or not. This means that film trailers are crutial for the success of a movie as they help to target the specific audience.
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