This document summarizes several common film genres including horror, romance, and science fiction. For horror films, it discusses typical settings, themes of haunting, demons, and gore. Romance films often depict relationships through conventions like weddings and arguments. Science fiction uses futuristic settings in space or alternative worlds. The document concludes that a horror/thriller opening would be most interesting and easiest to produce for the constraints of filming on location.

1. RESEARCHING GENRE Kaitlin Lodge

2. HORROR
Examples of horror films:
Saw, Nightmare On Elm Street, Paranormal Activity
Mese En Sene: bad weather (pathetic fallacy), haunted houses,
dark nights eerie music etc.
Themes: Haunting, demons, gore, serial killers, religious belief,
ghosts.
Camera Work: the art of camera work is an important element of
displayed in horror films. Through this convention, the audience
can easily be understood to what the film is trying to say. Weird
angles and canted cameras are most common within horror
film. Also they often use extreme close ups and point of view
shots in order to make the audience feel more involved.

3. ROMANCE
Conventions: sexuality status, gender and relationships.
What happens in their day to day life. Weddings, flowers,
hearts ( symbolize love ), arguments, voiceover etc
Genre: boy meets girl scenario, traditional happy ever
after, flashbacks, arguments and disagreements, heros
tend to be men
Camera Work: lots of cut in’s to romantic moments (hand
holding etc) to get the audience emotionally involved.

4. SCIENCE FICTION
Settings: futuristic places (labs, hospitals) outer space,
Special effects = high key lighting, outer space, other
worlds, alternative versions of Earth.
Narrative elements: conflict between good and evil,
unhuman elements
Film techniques: close up futuristic technology/scientific
elements.

5. CONCLUSION
I have came to the conclusion to do a horror/thriller convection
due to the fact I think it will be the most interesting and easiest
to produce. Moreover the genre science fiction would be too
hard to create in reality.. Furthermore to create a romance film
opening would be quite difficult for mese on sene (location etc).
Juxtaposing a horror film opening can be done simply and
effectively.