Genre is a term which a category of a form of culture. The term genre originally comes from a French word for ‘kind’ or even ‘class’. The genre I am going to be focusing on is Horror. Horror is a form or type of genre which is then controlled with intentions to help generate feelings of fear and horror to the target audience. This is done by the genre showing scenes to help cause shock, tension and distress. Also, there can be elements in the horror genre to help build a supernatural effect such as zombies, demons and ghosts thoroughly in the horror genre. Over a long period of time, the horror genre has changed some conventions. The main convention which has been altered is the use of colour. In previous years, the colour in a horror film was produced in black and white. In today’s society it has changed to full colour but with the same convention to help produce an improved audience reaction to briefly build up an adrenaline.
A sub genre is a sub-category within a larger genre. An example of a sub-genre can be comedy, teen, slasher, supernatural, paranormal and so on.
A fresh film genre will need to be developed regularly to keep their audience entertained otherwise movies will become recurring and won’t be in any use no more.
A hybrid-genre is when two films are combined. Horror hybrid genres would include; Horror Romance, horror-drama, horror sci-fi and horror war. An example would be Zombieland which is a horror-comedy.
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