Unit 1 - Genre

Genre

Romance

In romance movies for example The Notebook the usual conventions that you would see appear during a romance movie are the main characters being a boy and a girl and then automatically when know that those two characters are going to fall in love, which the audience may get some personal identification with the characters since it would be aimed at boyfriends and girlfriends or married couples since they could be in similar situation as those characters. Some other conventions that the audience would expect to see during this movie and other romance movies are other things like chocolates and flowers because those are the types of gifts that you would give to someone you are in a relationship with so again the audience may get some personal identification. 

Action 

In action films like Fast & Furious you would expect to see violence because in actions films they usually show todorovs narrative which has an equilibrium of how things started off, the a disruption which is what happens to ruin that ruins the equilibrium, then there is the recognition where the characters realise what they have to do to make things right again and then the rebuild which is the main story of how they get things back to normal and and then there is the new equilibrium of how things ended up at the end of the movie. Some other conventions that are usually seen in that movie and other action movies are the main characters having expensive and fast cars which makes them seem dangerous. 

In the film Fast and Furious there are conventions that are Mise en scene for example the locations are usually in similar places for example Los Angeles, London, Rome etc, they like to change locations so that it doesn't look boring and that they expand their choice of film location. 

Comedy 

In comedy films like The Inbetweeners movie, they always seem to have an unintelligent character which is the one that makes the audience laugh the most and then sometimes they have an opposite to that character to show the differences of the two characters and may make the audience wonder how those characters ever became friends. Another convention that is usually seen in this film is that they do unintelligent things to make people which makes people continue watching and is what makes the film so humours. 

Period Drama 
In Period drama films like Titanic some of the usual conventions that you would see are men and women in very old fashioned clothing for example for the women they wear very long elegant dresses, and the men were usually wearing suits with clothing braces. This shows the era that it was set in without having to even say it throughout the movie. Also the music in the background during the movie is classical music which is what people listen to in the olden days but nowadays the majority of people that are listening to classical music are elderly people.