Genre

Definition

Genre - Is a way of categorising media text
Sub Genre - A subcategory within a genre
Hybrid Genre - The combination between two genres (as they contains attributes of both)

Why is genre used?
- This allows the media text to market the film towards a target audience
- Warner brother uses this to find out which films have made them the most profit

What are genre conventions?
- What you expect from the genre

Thriller

What is a thriller genre ?
Uses suspense and tension to create an exciting plot

Conventions of a thriller

Characters: 
-Protagonist are usually stereotypical bold men who are trying to restore justice.
-Antagonist usually goes against the protagonist and his reasons are usually justified by his past.

Sound 
Tends to be used in order to set the scene eg their mood. The use of slow pace music is used when they are revealing something to the audience. When its fast paced music it introduces some action or to build suspense and tension

Editing
When there is a use of a cross fade it helps to show the relationship between the characters.There also tends to be a lot of jump cuts in order to make it seem more chaotic and exciting.

Mise en scene
Tends to be in dark lighting to make ti seem more mysterious and dangerous. The costume tends to be binary opposites between the Protagonist and the Antagonist, as the protagonist would be in bright cloths and the antagonist would be in dark coloured as it signifies evil.

Sub-genres of thriller

Action Thriller
- Die Hard (1988), Air Force One (1997)

Conspiracy Thriller

- JFK (1991)

Crime Thriller
- No Country for Old Men (2007)

Disaster Thriller
- Final Destination (2000)

Erotic Thriller

- Body Heat (1989)

Legal Thrillers
- A Few Good Men (1982), The Truth can be Adjusted (2007)

Medical Killer
- Awake (2007)

Psychological Thrillers
- Se7en (1995), The Mechinist (2004)

Political Thriller
- The Ides of March (2011)
 

Religious Thriller
- The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Spy Thriller
- The Bourne Identity (2002)

Supernatural Thriller
- The Sixth Sense (1999)