When we view a film, or basically any media object we self determine what type of media it is. Genre determines to the audience normally what they are to expect, for example a horror movie will normally incorporate blood and violence and this is a convention that is used lots.
Genre can affect the form, structure, style and content of a film, for example when a film is being created and when we as a group create a trailer, deciding on a genre will determine some aspects that should be incorporated.
In our group we have chosen to use the genres Romantic Tragedy with aspects of Psychological Thriller
This is because last year for the AS part of the course we created a Psychological Thriller and enjoyed this largely but we thought this year as we have budgeting constraints and needed to create a more professional video because we need to progress with our creations so we decided to create a Romantic Tragedy with elements of Psychological Thriller as we thought it would be easier to create a Romantic Tragedy with the technology and budget we have.
Hybrid Genre:
- Regressive: a media object that attempts to take on elements ‘original’ to a genre by resisting change that has already happened within the genre and attempting to go back to an earlier state.
- Progressive: a media object is created by melding aspects of different genres. This is usually an attempt to be original, but typically all of the elements have been used before, so all that is original is the blending of them.
We are using the progressive version of Hybrid Genre because we are using many aspects of genre because we are 'blending' various genres together.
Below is an image of how genres can be linked:
Also in our Genre Choice we need to consider the following:
- Audience
- Characterization
- Themes
- Settings
- Iconography
- Filmic Techniques
- Mood and Tone
- Mode of Address
- Subject Matter
- Originality
- Innovation
Unique selling points are vital for films as it is the unique aspect that makes the film feasible.
Our Unique selling point in our trailer and film (theoretically) is that using the hybrid genre of Romantic Tragedy with aspects of Psychological Thriller allows up to provide something that is not in mass production and not many films that have done this.
