Genre

All films have a certain category that the film falls into all of these different categories are called Genre. The most basic Genres that most people talk about are categories like Action, Horror, Comedy etc. All of these Genres have certain characteristics about them, for example a Horror movie would tend to have characteristics such as: it is set in a dark place, there tends to be loud music or noises that make the audience jump and also tends to contain really tense music that would make the audience feel anxious and nervous to find out what happens next. All films have macro elements to them, macros are the larger parts to the film for example they are parts like Genres and the Narrative parts of the film.

For example some Genres and their Characteristics are:



Horror: Full of suspense, loud noises/music, sometimes a killer, tends to be based in dark places e.g. mostly at night and or in an abandoned place.

Action: There is always something going on to keep the audience on the edge of their seat e.g things such as explosions, fight scenes, guns/weapons, A threat of some sort to the main protagonist of the story.