Genre Introduction

Genre is a style of work, it can also be classed as different categories and has specific target audience for each genre.

The word 'genre' is borrowed from the French ('kind') and derived Latin genus and Greek génos and in all three the basic meaning of the word means kind, a stylistic category or sort and/or class.

Expectation of cultural Experiences
Below is the typical codes and conventions that we as an audience identify in films:

- Music                                                                                     
- Colours 
- Lighting                                           
- Editing
- Props
- Camera Work
 = this is the cinematic style of a film such as mise en scene

There is also representations, themes, narratives/plots and iconography (we would recognise a black taxi as being a Lonodon cab) that we as an audience see in films that we recognise and see in films and put them to be in a certain place.

 

.For example in this film there is the Eiffel Tower in the background and so as an audience we know that the setting is in Paris.