Genre With Profesional Films

Some Types of Genre-

Action
Adventure
Crime and Gangsta
Comedy
Horror 
Sci-Fi

(some ideas are taken from earlier posts on my blog and have been used to create a sing post purely on Genre)

Crime and Gangsta/ Comedy-

The film consists of Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega, two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents. This film consists of generic conventions of an Action film, including gun fights, lots of heavy language, smoking and money. It also includes the main protagonist's and the rivalry between two sides that we expect to see from an action film. Comedy is also used in this film however is mainly based on our violent humour as an audience of Action films.

 In 21 jump street we see Schmidt and Jenko are high school students, one an honour roll geek, the other a cool, athletic underachiever. By 2012, they are rookie cops, paired together, on bike patrol yearning to make arrests. After a screw up, they're sent undercover back to high school to find the source of a dangerous synthetic drug. They mix up their names, and Schmidt gets the no-brainer classes where he auditions for Peter Pan and falls in love with Wendy; Jenko gets AP classes where he falls in with high-achieving dweebs. This second chance at high school gives Schmidt delusions of grandeur, which threaten the operation. This film is great example of a Crime/Gangsta film containing all the expected conventions such as the guns, fighting's, crimes, drugs, women but challenges these conversions setting it in a high school where they are undercover and has a sub story beneath it where Schmidt is desperately becoming attached to the change in high school life in which he is the most popular kid in school

Action-

In the opening of this film we start with a high speed chase where Vin Diesel is on a run at hijacking fuel tanks on the highways of the Dominican Republic, While his girlfriend Letty is hanging on for her life after jumping off the fast moving fuel tank with no drive after the drive was quickly brought to see the near edge of the road and jumped out without hesitation. Vin Diesel is rationally trying to save Letty driving in reverse at high speeds hanging out of the window grabbing Letty and pulling her onto the bonnet of the car. The fuel tank hits a lump in the ground and continues to roll continuously narrowly avoiding Vin and Letty's car and exploding

In this opening we see James 
Bond leave a wooden lodge
after a night with a girl,
classic bond! He makes a swift
exit leave on skis traveling down
the snowy cliffs when he is
confronted by a group of spy's
that start a icy chase with shots
being fired. James Bond manages
to dodge all the bullets and
explosions to then turn around
and shoot bullets from the end of
this ski pole killing off the spy's and finally bailing of the side of the cliff to fall quickly and leave audience in suspense until he reveals his parachute to float slowly to ground. This parachute is of the Great British flag. This contains many basic conventions of Action, these include the fast speed chases with loads of amazing stunts, guns and various crimes, a lot of murder and the use of specialist equipment such as the gun in the ski stick.

Adventure-

Once upon a time, the Kingdom of Erebor in the Lonely Mountain was taken from the dwarfs by the evil dragon Smaug. One day, the young Hobbit Bilbo Baggins is unexpectedly visited by the wizard Gandalf the Grey and twelve homeless dwarfs led by their former king Thorin and decided to vanquish Smaug and recover Erebor and their treasure. Bilbo joins the company in an unexpected journey through dangerous lands of the Middle-Earth where they have to fight against Trolls, Orcs and other magic creatures. Bilbo also meets the Gollum and finds his lost magic ring. This contains many adventure conventions such as the long journey traveling containing fantasy creatures and animals with one leader that is the superior being in the film    

 

Horror-

The Devil Inside is set in Italy. A women becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism. The daughter is determined to find out the story of how her mother turned out like this and why all these exorcisms are happening. She goes through a series of processes to try and take the exorcism out of her mother and return her back to normal. An exorcism is a very common convention in a horror film. It challenges the conventions of a horror film and is clearly shown throughout the contents of this movie. The use of religion is also a very important convention in Horror movies that shows the work of the devil which is cleverly shown through-out this film.   

Scream is a great example of a classic horror movie where we see an average girl having a night in watching some movie's, she's cooking pop corn when her phone rings. A man on the other end explains that he can see her and explains exactly what she is doing and what she should do. She begins to worry and looks all her doors, he gets angry and ends up killing her. This is then discovered by the police and the masked, cold killer continues killing and taunting the police killing various people from his high school. There are many conventions of horror movies such as the cold killer and the use of death and weapon, a victim and blood. However this film challenges these conventions using the setting of a high school surrounding and also the use of masked human rather that some mythical creature that is born to kill!   


For our film we are going to use horror because we feel that the conventions are so strong and our overall understanding is good in order to create and exciting and thrilling horror movie.