Genre
What is Genre?
Genre is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment, e.g. music, whether it's written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria.
When considering genre of a film, we consider its characteristics or key features.
There are 4 main concepts of genre. They are: Characters, Narratives, Themes and Iconography
The Genre that our group has chosen is Horror/Thriller.
Horror
Horror is a film genre that seek to draw out a negative emotional reaction from the viewers by creating a sense of fear. Horror films often show scenes that make audiences jump; the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror films often deal with the viewers nightmares, hidden fears and the terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the act of an evil force, event, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Commonly occurring elements include, ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, demons, gore, torture, zombies, cannibals, monsters, vicious animals, curses, satanism and serial killers.
Here are some horror films:
Night of the living dead (1968)
28 days left (2003)
Saw (2004)
Thriller
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television progamming. Some subgenres are pyschological thrillers, crime thrillers and mystery thrillers. The 3 main elements in thriller are suspense, tension and excitment. Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods, giving them a high level of anticipated, uncertain, surprise, anxity and/or terror. Thriller films tend to be rushing, gritty, rousing, and face paced. A thriller is a villian-driven plot, where he or she have to present obstacles that the main character must overcome.
Here are some films with the genre of thriller:
The dark knight rises (2012)
Inception (2010)
Pulp fiction (1994)
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