The document discusses four genres of film - comedy, horror, romantic comedy, and adventure. It notes that comedy aims to make audiences laugh through humor and exaggerated characters, while horror seeks to elicit negative emotions by playing on primal fears. Romantic comedies have lighthearted plots centered around love and relationships, and adventure films are set in exotic locations and explore concepts of survival, animals, roads, and heroes/heroines.

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