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Genre is a French word, pronounced as “Jon-Dra”. It is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment, e.g. music, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones are discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.

Classifications Of Genre. Genre classification is the process of grouping objects together based on defined similarities such as subject, format, style, or purpose. There are 4 Main Genres. i.e. Literary, Film and Television, video games, and music genres. These 4 Genres further divides into sub-genres like Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-fiction, Thriller, and many more.

Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative

emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the

audience's primal fears. Inspired by literature from

authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary

Shelley, horror films have for more than a century

featured scenes that startle the viewer. The macabre

and the supernatural are frequent themes. Thus they

may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural, and

thriller genres.

horror

Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares,

hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown.

Plots within the horror genre often involve the

intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage,

commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday

world.

Prevalent elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires,

were wolves, demons, gore, torture, vicious animals,

evil witches, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and

serial killers. Conversely, movies about the

supernatural are not necessarily always horrific.

Codes and Conventions of Horror

• Secluded Location

• Characters Forget about threat.

• Power is Cut.

• Phone Lines are Cut.

• Someone hears a strange noise.

• Vehicle won’t start.

• Someone is killed in the first 5 minutes.

• The Stormy Night

• Victim inexplicably falls over

• Victim Coves in front of a

window

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• The setting is usually very dark

• Jump cuts are common Extensive use of Narrative

enigmas

• Exploration of Narrative Themes

• Slow pace of Editing, builds tension. Long takes

• Three act narrative structure

• Predictable narrative content (follows format)

• Clear binary oppositions e.g. good v evil

• Use of low key lighting

• Extensive use of close up

• Incidental non-diegetic sound

• Distorted diegetic sound

• Young/teenage characters

• Point of view shots

• Low angle shots

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