‘Genre’ means ‘type’ or ‘kind’ in French. It is a term used to categories similar types of films together, such a romance, horror, comedy and so on. As well as the broad term genre, there is also subgenre, with physiological horror, slasher horror and werewolf horror for example.
Each genre has a different set of codes and conventions to follow, with particular representations and stereotypes, mise en scene, editing, diagetic and nondiagetic, as well as a slightly formatted storyline. These pre-determined ‘codes’ are not set it stone, but help decide a film from one genre to the other, so it is important we follow traditional horror code and conventions to ensure our genre is clear.
'‘Genre is not set - it is fluid, as it is defined by the audience.’'
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