Genre refers to any category of art or entertainment based on stylistic criteria, such as literature, music, or films. There are four main genres - literary, film/television, video games, and music - which are further divided into subgenres like action, adventure, comedy, and horror. Horror films aim to elicit negative emotions in viewers by playing on primal fears using themes of the macabre and supernatural, often involving the intrusion of an evil force into the everyday world through devices like ghosts, monsters, and serial killers. Common conventions in horror films include isolated settings, interrupted communication, early killings, storms, and the use of lighting, camera angles, and sounds to build tension.

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3. Genre is a French word, pronounced as “Jon-Dra”. It is
the term for any category of literature or other forms of
art or entertainment, e.g. music, whether written or
spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic
criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change
over time as new genres are invented and the use of old
ones are discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple
genres by way of borrowing and recombining these
conventions.

4. Classifications Of Genre. Genre classification is the
process of grouping objects together based on defined
similarities such as subject, format, style, or purpose.
There are 4 Main Genres. i.e. Literary, Film and
Television, video games, and music genres. These 4
Genres further divides into sub-genres like Action,
Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Romance,
Sci-fiction, Thriller, and many more.

5. horror
Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative
emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the
audience's primal fears. Inspired by literature from
authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary
Shelley, horror films have for more than a century
featured scenes that startle the viewer. The macabre
and the supernatural are frequent themes. Thus they
may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural, and
thriller genres.

6. Horror films often deal with the viewer's nightmares,
hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown.
Plots within the horror genre often involve the
intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage,
commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday
world.
Prevalent elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires,
were wolves, demons, gore, torture, vicious animals,
evil witches, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and
serial killers. Conversely, movies about the
supernatural are not necessarily always horrific.

7. Codes and Conventions of Horror
• Secluded Location
• Characters Forget about threat.
• Power is Cut.
• Phone Lines are Cut.
• Someone hears a strange noise.
• Vehicle won’t start.
• Someone is killed in the first 5 minutes.
• The Stormy Night
• Victim inexplicably falls over
• Victim Coves in front of a
window

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• The setting is usually very dark
• Jump cuts are common Extensive use of Narrative
enigmas
• Exploration of Narrative Themes
• Slow pace of Editing, builds tension. Long takes
• Three act narrative structure
• Predictable narrative content (follows format)
• Clear binary oppositions e.g. good v evil
• Use of low key lighting
• Extensive use of close up
• Incidental non-diegetic sound
• Distorted diegetic sound
• Young/teenage characters
• Point of view shots
• Low angle shots

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