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FILM GENRES

Film genres categorize movies based on recurring patterns, techniques, and conventions, helping filmmakers define the stories they want to tell. Most films are hybrids, combining elements from multiple genres, such as romantic comedies and horror-comedies. Narrative films focus on storytelling through a series of events and character actions, utilizing various elements like theme, setting, and mood to engage viewers.

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FILM GENRES

Film genres categorize movies based on recurring patterns, techniques, and conventions, helping filmmakers define the stories they want to tell. Most films are hybrids, combining elements from multiple genres, such as romantic comedies and horror-comedies. Narrative films focus on storytelling through a series of events and character actions, utilizing various elements like theme, setting, and mood to engage viewers.

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FILM GENRES

Before we start learning and undertaking the process of video production and filmmaking, first, it is
important to know what kind of story you desire to tell. Knowing the certain qualities and characteristics
of the different film genres can help you hone your skills in and telling your verycreating own story

Film Genres are the categorization of various forms of film, based on consistent, recurring, and familiar
filmic patterns, techniques, and conventions. The following are important when grouping films into a
certain genre: story, plot, narrative events, structure, characters, motifs, styles, themes, messages,
familiar icons, and characterization

Films cannot usually be grouped exclusively into a sole genre. Most, if not all of the films released, are a
combination of two or more genres and are called hybrids. An example is the romantic comedy, which is
now more popularly called the rom-com, for short. The horror-comedy is another example that has
experienced a rise in popularity recently. Other examples of hybrid-type genres are the following:
science fiction-action-adventure, documentary-comedy (or documentary), and the action-comedy.

Elements of a Narrative Film


Narrative films are also called fictional films. They stand in contrast to documentary films which mainly
present information. Narrative films are mainly defined by two things: the story being presented and its
narrative discourse or how the story is told

The story is basically defined as a series of events, characters, and action represented within a given
setting of time and place, or a world of cause and effect.

The narrative discourse is mainly evident in the strategies of presentation, specifically when the camera
is used to present different perspectives and depths. This allows the viewer to be immersed in the world
of the story by actually showing the faces, the actions, the movements, and the events happening. In
contrast, the situations and events presented in literary fiction can only be imagined.

There are lots of styles and flourishes to be made in the narrative discourse of a film. Everything
depends on what the director of the film wants to achieve with the story. These different styles can be
categorized through the recurring film elements.

• Theme: This involves the issues, topics, or concepts around which the story revolves

• Setting: The environment where and when the story takes place

• Mood: Emotional tone of the story

• Plot: Sequence of event


Main Types of Film Genre
• Action/Adventure: This is exemplified by high energy scenes

• Comedy: This has one priority: to make you laugh.

• Drama: This is serious in nature, and is either plot- or character-driven

• Horror/Suspense: This is designed to provoke one strong emotional response from the viewers:

fear.

• Westerns: This can be identified through familiar frontier- America-period or “cowboy”

elements.

• Crime and Gangsters: This deals with shady characters involving sinister actions.

• Detective/Mystery: This revolves around the protagonist unraveling a particular mystery, which

is the central aspect of the plot

• Science Fiction: This deals with futuristic science and technological concepts around which the

plot revolves.

• Fantasy: This often has the elements of myth, magic, wonder, and the extraordinary.

• Biographical: This depicts the life of a person with historical importance.

• Historical/Epic: This is set in a particular period in time of interest to the audience.

• Musical: This centers on musical dance performances as a main part of the narrative.

• Chick Flick/Guy Film: The characters in this type of film are those that viewers can relate to.

• Sports: The story of this type moves around a sport or sports setting.

• Documentary: This presents and documents reality in different settings, situations,

circumstances, and characters.

• Animated Films: This uses animation and rendered “cartoons” to present the narrative.
A story can be told in many and diverse ways. It all depends on the different approaches one

might take in making and telling a story. The same can be said for filmmaking. We categorize

these different approaches in numerous types of ways, but we mainly group them based on

recurring and familiar patterns within the story. We call these groupings film genres. A film

genre is defined mainly through the story, how the story is told, and through its elements

(theme, plot, mood, setting). In time, film genres have evolved along with the technology to

make films.

• Film Genre: the categorization of various forms of film, based on consistent, recurring, and

familiar filmic patterns, techniques, and conventions

• Hybrids Films: shares the elements of two or more film genres

• Story: This series of events, characters, and action represented within a given setting of time and
place, or a world of cause and effect

Narrative Discourse: This is how the story is told, which is mainly manifested on the approach of
presentation with the use of the camera.

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