Genres are timeless as even though nowadays they are changing they're still sticking to the main route of how movies are seen by the audience and are still seen in particular genres. Even though genres are still used to inform audiences what the movie is like, they are still adapting and expanding.
Robert Stam suggests that genres are defined through the performer which supports that we can still label films as sometimes the performer has the same personalty in the same genre of films.
Why do you think hybrid genres are developing so much?
Recently, there are more films that are hybrid genres than not because combining two different genres can attract different target audiences depending on what genre they like. For example, Romantic comedies would attract two types of viewers; those who like comedies and those who like romances. This allows there to be a bigger target audience overall and therefore more popular. This relates to the theorist, John Turby who said that genres are useful for purposes such as target audience and marketing because a larger audience can expand the marketing of the movie. For example the film Avatar contains the genres, romance, action and thriller therefore there is a wide target audience who can help advertise the movie and allow it to become more popular. Hybrid genres are developing so much because genres are there to attract a specific target audience, so hybrid attract an even bigger audience because there is two genres to attract two types of people.
Choose one of your products and determine how it does/doesn't conform to a genre.
Our thriller, Group P3-68 does conform to a particular genre as the three aspects, Setting, Theme/Topic and format have been met. The way the setting has shown thriller to be the particular genre is because the main character is shown first off in a lift accompanied by low tone music showing jump cuts to the victim. To an average audience, these features can be seen as typical expectations. The way the theme/topic shows thriller to be the genre is because the mood and emotions shown in the footage puts the audience on edge as they would think something is going to happen. The format shows a number of different shots including, jump cuts and close ups. This helps the audience predict the story-line and the issues which are to come.
Also this thriller can be categorised into two subgenres: crime thriller and psychological. This does conform to the genre of the film because of the story line.
Janet Steiger says there are four ways of defining films. these four features can relate to our thriller because we are able to judge other thrillers with ours to know its particular genre, such as the music and camera angles. Also it could be a different cultural expectation in society because in some cultures our thriller could be very elaborate to some people while some cultures might see this is a mild thriller.
Robert Stam believes that the performer allows the audience to define the genre that the film is given, therefore the main character in our thriller should show a dramatic, determining performance.
John Turby believes the genre is useful for purposes of marketing and target audience therefore having the audience predict the genre can be important to the film and its production. Expectations are deliberately contradicted or agreed with to help the audience, this is done by screen writers using 'genre bases'.
John Turby believes the genre is useful for purposes of marketing and target audience therefore having the audience predict the genre can be important to the film and its production. Expectations are deliberately contradicted or agreed with to help the audience, this is done by screen writers using 'genre bases'.
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