Story lines.

There are typical story lines for each genre. Although every film is different, film makers tend to include elements that the audience expects so the audience is not let down by the film. Write down what you expect to happen in different film genres. Let your film knowledge come out, don’t worry about getting the answer right, just have fun thinking about what might happen in these films. Try to get several story lines for each film types.

e.g. Horror: Teenagers go to isolated house.

Science Fiction: Another world is destroyed by evil aliens.

Romance: Ugly girl transformed into a beauty by taking off her glasses!!!

Children’s: Orphan child is sad and longs to find somewhere to belong.

Comedy: Bags get swapped and vicar finds something embarrassing in his bag.

3. Here are some generic titles used to characterize film genres:

melodramas, horror films, adventure films, comedies, crime films, epics

The words in the lists below are all synonyms of, or closely related to, which of these genres?

war films, weepies, chillers, period pictures, macabre, swashbucklers, tearjerkers, slapstick, romcom, scary movies, lampoon, costume dramas, take-off, thriller, disaster films, suspense, spookfests, film-noir, slasher, spoof, detective-mystery films, historical dramas, caper, chick flicks, medieval romps, screwball, heist flick, sitcom

Why do genres change over time?

Generic texts do not have a set of fixed and unchanging characteristics but, like any other texts, they reflect the changing times and societies in which they are produced as well as changes in media institutions, such as the film industry, themselves.

When accounting for why and in what ways genres change over time you need to consider the changing popularity of particular genres at particular times, the changing content of genre texts and also changes in the treatment of the genre.

Below is a list of possible reasons why genres might change over time.

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