Genre & Subgenre

Genre & Subgenre 

A genre is a type of category a media product falls into. a genre is usually defined by shared characteristics. Within the film industry there are many different genres; comedy, horror, drama, crime, action adventure, thriller, westerns, romance, animation and many more.

A subgenre is a category within a particular genre and are usually combined with two different genres. for example the film "what happens in vegas" is a 'rom-com'. This is a subgenre of the comedy genre and romance genre. Another example of a subgenre is "Law Abiding Citizen". This is a subgenre of crime films & thrillers.

My favourite thriller subgenre would probably be crime thrillers because they are quite realistic as in the content in crime thrillers are much more likely to actually happen and are stuff you would expect to see or hear about in the real world through either the news or word of mouth unlike the content in techno thrillers or super natural thrillers.


Here are some of my favourite crime thriller's that inspire me the most:

These films can influence our opening scene by looking at how tension and suspense is built up through editing, camera work, sound and mise-en-scene. We could use some of these techniques in our opening very easily.