“The genre may be considered as a practical device for helping any mass medium to produce consistently and efficiently and to relate its production to the expectations of its customers. Since it is also a practical device for enabling individual media users to plan their choices, it can be considered as a mechanism for ordering the relations between the two main parties to mass communication.“ – Dennis McQuail

Action – a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats

Adventure – a film genre that contains an exciting story, with new experiences and exotic locations

Animation – a genre that utilises the method of photographing successive drawings, models, or even puppets, to create an illusion of movement in a sequence

Comedy – a genre that uses humour to situations and characters, to appeal to audiences

Crime – a genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

Documentary – a non-fictional motion-picture intended to “document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record”

Drama – a genre intended to be more serious than humourous in tone

Fantasy – a genre involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore

Historical – a genre showing past events or set within a historical period

Horror –  a genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes

Musical – a genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, usually accompanied by singing and dancing

Mystery – a genre that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime

Romance – a genre that focuses on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters

Science Fiction – a genre which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life

Sports – a genre in which a sport, sporting event, athlete, or follower of sport are prominently featured

Thriller – a genre designed to hold the interest of the audience by the use of a high degree of intrigue, adventure, or suspense

Western – a genre set primarily in the latter half of the 19th Century and the early 20th Century in the Western United States, in the style of the ‘Wild West’

A girl discovers her brother has been murdered in the street and tries to hunt down his killer. Categorized as a mystery/thriller, the film/series will be in an unchronological sequence with flashbacks to before her brother died.

For my film/series, I will create two different posters. These will give the potential audience an idea of what they would see if they watch it. For this, I am going to create one with mysterious elements, such as a silhouette of a looming figure, and another with hints towards the plot, such as a picture of the girl’s brother covered in blood.

Reinforced – to strengthen by additional material or support

Amplify – enlarge upon or add detail to (a story or statement)

Repertoire of elements –  is essentially features of a film that are repeated within a genre

Corpus – a collection of written texts, especially the entire works of a particular author or a body of writing on a particular subject

Verisimilitude – the appearance of being true or real

Realism – the quality or fact of representing a person or thing in a way that is accurate and true to life

Sub-genres – a genre that is part of a larger genre

Hybrid genres –  is a genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres

Familiar – well known from long or close association

Genre is when music or films are made up into diffrent

Genre is essentially around similarities and differences and should be predictable and expected and also unpredictable and unexpected

Genre is very important for companies who make it and for the people who consume it.

“. . . saddled with conventions and stereotypes, formulas and clichés and all of these limitations were codified in specific genres. This was the very foundation of the studio system and audiences love genre pictures . . .”