The document discusses various genres and conventions of film genres. It provides examples of different genres like melodrama, addiction drama, and crime drama. It then discusses conventions like love, sadness, lost love, social class, tragedy, happy endings, poverty, and isolation seen in genre films. Specific films are referenced to illustrate how different conventions like shadows, flashbacks, death, and blood are used in thriller films. Finally, it proposes using, developing, or challenging certain conventions like isolation, sadness, and tragedy in an original film.

1. Information of Genre
Delia Dan
Part C
"woman's film"
Melodramas are a subgenres of drama films,
characterized by a plot to appeal the emotions from
the film to the audience, viewer.
Addiction Drama
I think the subgenre could be addiction drama
because the girl is addicted of not eating and
always forcing herself to vomit.
Crime Drama
When serious thinks happening in the
storyline till the end of the movie, about
crime or killing

2. Conventions Of Genre Drama Andreea Cristea
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Convention Name of film Still shots How they show
the convention
Love Ps I love you By the way they look at
each other, it shows how
they are in love, also by
the close-up shot.
Sadness If only By using a close up shot of
the woman crying, shows
she is sad because of love.
It shows her emotions.
Lost love A walk to remember By the shot showing that
she is sick. Also that she is
pale, and it shows
something is not right,
she is not feeling good.
Social class Titanic Shows the difference by
the clothes they are
wearing, and the way
their parties are. The
higher class, they look
more posh, more sitting
down, but the working
class, they dance, they
have fun.

3. Conventions Of Genre Drama Andreea Cristea
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Convention Name of film Still shots How they show the
convention
Tragedy Romeo and Juliet Shows with a close up shot,
that she is trying to kill
herself which is a tragedy.
Happy Notebook Because it is a love story, it
shows a mid shot of the 2
Ending lovers together. Because
they are old now, it shows
that they are together, and
they been together for a
long time.
Poverty North Country Shows the poverty, because
the woman wear a helmet,
which is a very hard job,
therefore she is doing this
because of the need of
money.
Isolation 4.3.2.1. Shows that the girl is by
herself, she is scared. By the
way she is sitting, it shows
fear, she is hiding.

4. Conventions Of Sub-Genre Thriller Andreea Cristea
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Convention Name of film Still shots How they show the
convention
Mirror Odd Girl Out Shows that the girl is looking in
the mirror, it builds enigma,
don’t know what will happen
next.
Shadows Child’s play Shadows, to emphasise the
fear.
Flashback Resident Evil The movie includes flashback,
to inform the audience what
has happened before.
Death / The ring Shows that the the girl from
the ring is trying to kill the girl.
Killing Shows the girl screaming, also
a blonde girl being killed,
which shows naivity.
Blood Halloween Blood is also a convention for a
thriller. It shows that
(The curse of something is not clear,
Michael Myers) something bad has happened.

5. Conventions Andreea Cristea
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Convention Use/Develop/Challenge Description & Purpose Examples from
FILM (name of
film with still
shot)
Isolation USE- we will use isolation a A girl who is very depressed, 4.3.2.1
convention in our opening she is always by herself,
sequence, to show that the isolated from others. Not very
girl is isolated, that is how she friendly, and she always hides
feels. something.
Sadness DEVELOP- To show that the A close up shot of the woman’s If only
girl is very sad, when she face, to show the emotions.
remembers about what
happened, she starts crying.
We can develop this by using
a close up shot of her face, to
show emotion of sadness.
Tragedy Trying to jump of a bridge. To When the girl feels depressed, 4.3.2.1
build enigma. she is trying to jump off the
bridge, but her friends save her.