Unit 22 Genre

In every movie there is a genre. Theses' genres have convention in them meaning things are expected in them.  Movies have a theme, which the audience expects into be the movies, which contains certain mise en scene. These conventions are also part of what makes a genre what it is. For examples of a convention in the action genre are things like fights, explorations and guns these are type of things which what are conventions.

Science fiction 

In the science fiction genre the conventions that are to be expected in it are space, spaceships, aliens, futuristic and abnormal atmosphere.  These are generally targeted at people that love movies such as start wars, which are among some of the best classical movies, which people still talk about to this day with over one million fans. Many people including me can also consider conventions cliché but it's one of things that make that genre and add to movie, which can be important as might remove from the plot and settings.

The star wars conventions contain things such as laser guns, aliens and space. Star wars is greatly known for the science fiction genre if the science fiction genre was ever removed from it then it wouldn't be much of a movie as the plot and science fictions both needed to make sense.   Appeal of a movie like star wars is that it isn't realist it the total onsite which is fiction. It's for people that are looking for escapism, which almost every audience wants.  It's to take a break from reality and instead look things that are non realistic. The science fiction genre is for people that like to see thing that are abnormal and out of this would as present most of originality we see in movies.  

Horror genre 

While with the horror genre you expect conventions such as murderer, monsters, victims, friends, family, abandoned house and blood.  A movie, which contains theses horror elements, is the movie Scream. The movie contains the genres such as horror the main aspect of the movie along with other genre such as slasher, mystery, thriller and crime film.

The movie scream takes places 1 year after the after Sydney's mother death. Soon after she and her friends start getting calls from a psycho killer who is out to kill Sydney and her friends. This movies contains a lot of violence, blood, swearing and death.

The conventions that appeal here for the audience are suspense and dark themes it deals with in the movie. It's also done in a realistic way which can be relatable to the audience as you can also personal identify with the character of the movie. This makes the audience think what they would do if they were in the character positions making more scary and for the audience to also engage more while watching the movie.

Romance genre 

Last but not least the romance genre. In the romance genre you always expect in the conventions department you always expects thing such as kissing, argument love and young people. This would appeal to the audience as this one of the strongest relationships you can have with someone else. It can also be relatable to people that also have partners, which can be also be personally identify with a character in a movie and their love story.

One of the movies I've decided to talk about is the Titanic and the genres it contains are romance, epic, disaster and historical. This movie is full of excitements along with being of the most emotional movies. This is because of the relationship between the two main characters Jack and Rose. The two first start as just stranger who are from total different worlds. While Rose is an upper class citizens which thinks the world is cruel and that she can't decide live her life. Jack on the hand represents what it means to be free and is not afraid to speak his mind or act on his actions without hesitating and is a low working class citizen.  Both of the character builds up a strong bond in such a little time they know each other. This doesn't only represent young love but also what means to be young and fall in love.

The strong message that the director lives behind is if you truly love someone then you sacrifice your self for the person you truly love. This one of the reason why the audience for romance appeal to them because it often has a strong message of love which one of the strongest emotions that someone can have.  While romance genre isn't the most exciting or interesting genre it is one of realistic aspect done right in a movie.