I have spent time researching the different conventions that each genre should have. I first put these ideas into a mind map and then as you can see below I have broadened my research into more detail.
Horror
- Hand held camera work
- Makes viewer feel like their in the film
- Gory
Guts
Often lots of blood
- Killings
- Suicide
- Homicide
- Murder
- Often brutal and inhumane
- Often no dialogue used at all during teasers
- Tense music followed by screams and cries for help
- Often show a character being intimidated by another character
Chick Flick / Rom-com
- Often follow a relationship between a male and female
- Show a link between the two of them whether this is a strong or weak link depends on specific films.
Drama
- Often very story based and the trailer always has to show the elements that appear in the film without telling the actual story
- Show elements of the lifestyle they live in
Musical
- Often a small community of people grouped together to form a 'family'
Cartoon / Animations
- Animations
- Often popular with young children
- Usually big names are watched by a wide variety of people e.g. Simpsons, Wallace and Gromit
Comedy
- Slow shots used
- Something big usually happens before the main story
- Very humorous
Action / Adventure
- Often exciting stories
- Usually contain searches or expeditions
- Searches for the unknown
- Common features in action films
Guns
Cars
Men in suits
Fast paced Cuts throughout the film
Women
Thriller
- Provides thrills
- Keeps the audience hanging in suspense
- Plot builds to a quick climax before the end of the film
- Life is threatened in dangerous situations
- Often filmed in a 'normal' suburb or city
- Getting increasingly influenced by the horror genre due to more gore and sadistic violence
Science Fiction
- Often mainly Computer Generated Images (CGI)
- Fiction stories
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