Types of Movies/Movie Genre

Topic Introduction

Genre is category or classification of music, art, literature, or film. With genre being made up of many different components, they help the viewers understand the kind or type of film they are watching. The components mentioned consist of story, plot, situations, locations, themes, values, and characters. Some different examples of genres are horror, young adult, comedy, and science fiction (sci-fi).

Background Research

Musicals is a genre where song are intertwined into a narrative and sometimes includes dancing. The songs in musicals usually advance the plot or develops the characters. In the 1960's, films based on stage musicals continued to be critical and box-office successes. Back then, musicals contained almost no recorded dialogue but they had several songs. Now, musicals have the power to have recorded dialogue with songs. Musicals make a large impact on society. 

Content Application

For a recent class project, we were asked to pick a genre, evaluate the genre we picked, and to place what we learned into a PowerPoint and summarize the information on a poster. The genre I chose to evaluate is horror. Horror is a genre of film or television whose purpose is to create feelings of fear, dread, disgust, and/or terror in the audience. The plot genre incorporates violence and gore; portrays the worst nightmares. Types of characters in this genre: the killer, the bad girl/boy, the blonde, the scholar, the cop, and skeptic. These characters play an important role in this genre because they build the plot. Some techniques used in this genre are jump scares, tight framing, mirroring & reflecting, spotlighting and lighting tech. Going into lighting tech, horror uses dark, underexposed lighting with lots of shadows. Movie posters and book covers usually have red, black, and white lighting with contrasts and shadows along with either the main character(s), the antagonist(may be in background art or shadow), or the setting of where the story will take place. 

  

Reflection

My reflection on types of movies/movie genres is that there are many components of genre. The components of genre help the audience understand what they are being shown. In horror, it has a lot of important parts to make it truly fit into the genre. 

References/Sources

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