Genre

Genre

Genre - a french word meaning 'type'.

Genres are made up of conventions, which mean the rules of the genre. 

For example, the conventions of a horror film:

- Scary, jump scares, tension

- Dark lighting

- Dim or darkened lighting

- Abandoned, desolate, isolated location

- Music, creepy, slow, fast, tense

- Scary characters, clown, murderer, dolls

Subverting the genre - changes or somehow rejects the conventions of the genre

This is scary movie, it is a funny horror which does not conform to the conventions of the genre.

Conforming to the genre - follows all of the normal conventions

This is the notebook a romance film which conforms to the genre conventions

Hybrid genre - any media text that mixes together more than one genre and the conventions

This is scream queens, a tv show which is horror and comedy

Genres and examples of TV series

Action - Prison break 

Adventure - Game of thrones

Comedy - How i met your mother

purposely funny and entertaining, escapism

Drama - Gossip girl

always something new and dramatic per ep

Documentary - Blue planet

gives the audience information

Fantasy - The vampire diaries

vampires, 'not real' in the medias eyes

Historical - Reign

a series not in the present or in the future

Thriller - Stranger things

tension and some scares

Western - Westworld

set in western