Romantic Comedies.
Conventions:
Conventions:
- Boy meets a Girl
- They meet them something gets in their way. They face a lot of obstacles. e.g. love triangles.
- They meet because of love at first sight, through friends, were once enemies, work colleagues, etc.
- In the end they end up getting married or being together and being happy.
- Happy and jolly music. Make you smile and know something good is going to happen in the film.
These films go with convention and watch you expect:
- 13 Going On 30
- Made Of Honor
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- Sex And The City
- Just Friends
- Pretty Women
- Never Been Kissed
- Notting Hill
- Monkey Business
Horrors.
Conventions:
- People expect to be scared.
- The characters are normally groups of people.
- Gruesome, bloody, murders, killings, weapons.
- The murder is normally a psychopath, is troubled, myths, mentally ill, seeking revenge, is a cannibal, and scientific e.g. aliens, or is misunderstood.
- A lot of the horror films are based on 'childhood nightmares' which are things everyone is scared to have happen to them e.g. Chucky, Nightmare on Elm Street
- The music should make the audience feel uneasy and a little nervous about the film and make them want to know more, the music should unsettle them.
Films:
These films go with convention and watch you expect:
- Jeepers Creepers
- The Ring
- The Grudge
- The Unborn
- Switchblade Romance
- The Grudge
- Scream
- Day Of The Dead
Thrillers.
Conventions:
- About a murder or gang.
- Music that will build tension for the audience.
- That will make them want to know more about what is going on in the film.
- Overlapping Sub-Genres.
- Conflict, climax, falling action, fights.
- Usually involve The Police or some kind of Law enforcement.
- Fast cars and a lot of guns.
- Tense atmosphere.
- Not suppose to scare you.
- No blood or gore.
Films:
These films go with convention and watch you expect.
- The Bourne Identify
- Cliffhanger Mission Impossible
- The Sixth Sense
- Blade
- I Robot
- Se7en
- Old Boy
- Infernal Affairs
I have chosen Horror as my genre.
