Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Genre

What is meant by the term 'genre' ?
-Genre is defined as "a class or category of artistic endeavour having a particularform, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epicpoetry; the genre of symphonic music." which is said by 'http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/genre'.
Give one example of a film genre and list typical codes and conventions for that genre.

-Romance as a genre is very popular within the film industry, and typical codes and conventions for this would be the idea of the boy meets girl love story is typical of the genre. Also the films are usually aimed at women of all ages as they are most likely to understand and relate to it. Usually has the sub-genre, for example 'rom-coms'.

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