Stories
can have 1 or 2, even 3 different genres, but if you use too many genres, the
audience will be confused and not like the film. These genres are generalized, flexible, and cross over into
other genres. Remember, there are no RULES in filmmaking or art…..
DRAMA: real life, tragedy, murder/violence/rape, biography, period
(history), costume, docudrama.
MELODRAMA: very emotional, larger than life, soap
opera.
ROMANCE: classic, adult, teen, love, romantic-comedy.
COMEDY: slapstick, physical, language (jokes/puns), satire, broad,
dry, manic, teen gross-out.
ACTION: war, violence, police, gangster, robbery, chase, martial
arts, special effects, comic book, animé.
ADVENTURE: travel, road movie, exotic,
romantic-adventure, comedy-adventure, action-adventure.
FANTASY: romantic fantasy, sci-fi fantasy, fantasy-adventure. (Tim
Burton, Terry Gilliam.)
SCIENCE FICTION (SCI-FI): hi-tech, lo-tech, apocalyptic,
disaster, disease, alien, monster, time machine.
HORROR: classic, ghost, vampire, werewolf, mummy, zombie, psycho,
body parts, buckets of blood.
MYSTERY: detective, mystery-suspense, courtroom, supernatural, film
noir.
SUSPENSE/THRILLER: political, murder, spy. (More tense
than scary, many twists and surprises.)
MUSICAL: singing, dancing, classical (MGM), rock, jazz, big bands,
swimming (Esther Williams).
WESTERN/SAMURAI: classic, revisionist (modern), end of
the Wild West, end of the Samurai.
RELIGIOUS: classic Jesus, born-again/fundamentalist, New Age, mystical, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist.
GAY/LESBIAN: coming-of-age, coming out, old/young,
senior, flamboyant, leather, politics, AIDS, prejudice.
WOMEN: society, inequality, repression, prejudice, abuse, rape,
revenge, abortion, sexuality, ageism.
SEX: soft-core (Playboy), hard-core (XXX), S&M, D&B,
kinky, erotic, sensual, passion, art.
FORMS OF FILMS
COMMERCIAL
ENTERTAINMENT: studio films, teen
films, big budget, epic, special effects, movie stars.
ART
FILMS: festivals,
educated/sophisticated audiences, commercial art films, avant garde,
experimental.
THEATRICAL: meant to show in movie theaters first
(cinematography, lighting, sound for large screens).
TELEVISION: network TV, basic TV, cable/satellite
TV, movie channels, pay-per-view, video-on-demand.
STRAIGHT-TO-VIDEO: made not play in theaters or bad, or
uncommercial; for buying and rental only.
VIDEO
FILMS: shot digitally by cameras, phones, pads; YouTube, Facebook movies.
ANIMATION: classic, stop-motion, rotoscope, ink,
sand, hand-drawn 2-D, digital 2-D, 3-D, animé, mange.
DOCUMENTARY: nature, travel, political, social,
propaganda, “making of” films, recreated, ethnographic.
MUSIC
VIDEOS: concerts, feature-length
for theaters, DVDs, MTV, promotional, YouTube.
EDUCATIONAL: schools, colleges/universities,
libraries, events, public service, instructional.
INDUSTRIAL: public relations, publicity,
conventions, external sales, internal.
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