Genre

Types of genre

Film

• Horror
• Sci-Fi
• Action
• Adventure
• Drama
• Comedy
• Romance
• Rom-com

Tv

• Game shows
• Soaps
• Reality Tv
• Dramas

Music

• Rock
• Pop
• Rap
• Classical
• Jazz
• Hip-hop

Print

• Magazine
• Newspaper
• Books
• Posters
• billboards

Daniel Chandler’s basic definition

Conventional definitions of genres tend to be based on the idea that they are made up of particular conventions (such as themes or settings) and/or form (including narrative structure and visual style) and all text of the same genre will share these conventions.

Film Genres:

• Action
• Drama
• Sci-fi
• Thriller
• Mystery
• detective
• superhero
• comic book
• Period drama
• romance
• Noir
• Fantasy
• Horror
• Silent
• Psychological horror
• found footage
• Western
• Christmas
• coming of age
• Feel good
• Gangster
• crime
• Mob
• Family

Sci-fi:

Time travel- 2L

Futuristic setting-0.5kg

Parallel Universe- a dash of 

Space Exploration 1.5kg

Aliens 1L                                 

Superhero often from exposure to an unworldly substance 1kg

Unknown alien threat 0.5kg

Warfare throughout planets 400ml

robots or other futuristic technology 2kg