This is my initial basic research into several popular genres of film.

1. GENRE RESEARCH
COMEDY HORROR
ROMANTIC COMEDY
ADVENTURE

2. GENRE: COMEDY
 Emphasis of humour; aim to make the audience laugh through
amusement and most often by exaggerating characteristics for
humorous effect
 Slapstick comedy seen in black and white movies
 Puts more focus on individual characters
 Traditionally having a happy ending
 Subgenres;
 Fish out of water comedy
 Slapstick comedy
 Parody comedy
 Gross out films
 Black comedy
 Anarchic comedy film

3. GENRE: HORROR
 Seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers
 Plays on the audiences primal fears
 Can be inspired by literature
 Horror films have existed for more than a century
 Often overlap; fantasy, supernatural and thriller genres
 Often deal with viewers fears, nightmares and delusions

4. GENRE: ROMANTIC COMEDY
 Films with light hearted and humorous plotlines
 Centred on romance and ideas that true love conquers all
 Defined as; a film about a love story that has a happy ending
 A plot where two well suited, often young and attractive lovers meet or
are reunited
 Evolution of romantic comedies;
 Extreme circumstances; warm bodies is a romantic comedy where a
zombie falls in love with a human
 Serious topic; an example is knocked up where they discuss the topic of
unwanted pregnancy and taking responsibility

5. GENRE: ADVENTURE
 Use their scenes to display and explore exotic and exciting locations
 Usually set in a jungle, mountain, desert, island etc.
 Mostly set in a period background
 Reached its peak of popularity in the 1930s and 1940s
 Example; the adventures of robin hood
 Popular concepts within the genre of adventure are;
 Survival style movies such as the popular hunger games series
 Animal and dinosaur films such as Jurassic Park
 Road films such as Mad Max
 In their early days, adventure films would often feature a male protagonist
but in recent times this has been replaced with heroines such as Lara
Croft