Genre Planning

Genre Planning

In our group off three, we looked into three main genres styles that we could potentually that we could work in for our film opening. The three film genreswere Horror, Action and Adventure.

Horror

-usually a mid teen audience
-many sub genres
-the opening usually starts in a state off equlibrium, charectors are all together and happy, we see glimses off desrumtion that will come laterin the film
-examples off horror openings - Jaws - cabin fever - chainsaw masicur - the shallows
-one main setting

Action

-usually 12-55 years
-often seen as a hybrid - action adventure
-lots of fight scenes
-clean hero vs villain (Todorov's theory)
-example of action- James bond, Jason Bourne and Mad Max

Adventure

-all ages
-often linked to action
- main charactor goes on a journey
- follows Todorovs theory
- exaples of adventure- Lord Of The Rings, Indiana Jones and The Hobbit