Genre Conventions

There were 5 different genre conventions that we had to choose from:

• Teenage romance comedy

This involves having a cast involving Teenagers that may have scenes which could make it obvious that it was of that age, like filming in a college or having actions that are quite stereotypical of a teenager like smoking, taking drugs, having sex etc. The romantic side would be filmed like maybe having inexperienced teenagers and also the experienced and following a story of two in love. For example- John Tucker Must Die

• Supernatural thriller with lead woman

Supernatural is usually considered as fiction and having fictional characters playing, involving the thriller side would make it quite an action film with lots happening in it that would keep you involved and may be quite scary at times. So it would have different supernatural sort of out of this world things in it. The lead would be a woman, so giving women the more important part than men. For example- The Ring

• British Social Realist drama 

This would be showing a lot of different people in England and how they live. The different cultures in life, poor, rich. How people live and deal with different situations. The story usually involves a lot of different types of people living in different places and looking at how they live their lives so differently. For example- This Is England

• Crime caper with ensemble cast

Usually a group of main characters who are involved in crimes. There's usually lots of scenes with action where you see maybe gruesome parts, a lot of fighting and shows how people can commit crime very well. There's hustling, lying and  most of everything they do is illegal. For example- Oceans 11

• Children's adventure movie

This has a target audience of children, so it usually has easy conversations with young people in and adults who could be nice and easy to understand. Adventures are exciting where there's a lot of action and the story is fiction with a lot of interesting characters and scenes. For example- Chronicles of Narnia