This document discusses conventions and inspirations across several film genres, including romantic comedies, sci-fi/thrillers, dramas, and horrors. For romantic comedies, a common convention is something or someone coming between the relationship, while fonts are often influential due to their relevance to the storyline. Sci-fi/thrillers frequently explore unpredictable events becoming real, such as aliens, and manipulate everyday elements. Dramas aim to highlight something positive from realistic situations and often feature realistic characterizations. Horrors traditionally involve something inhuman causing fear, though this is changing to include true historical events.

1. Gelsomina De Lucia

2. • Convention : Forbidden love/ someone or something coming in-between the relationship.
• For example in ‘Your Sisters Sister’, the sister is the cause of what separates her and her best
friend.
• However, in the A2 production called, ‘What If’, it is the element of time travel which
separates the couple.

3. • Inspiration: With the genre – in general – I found the fonts influential because they had
meaning to the films such as in the romantic comedy film ‘The Oranges’ it is such a
plain orange screen which is symbolic for the film.
• The fonts in romantic comedies are always relevant to the storyline and are not over the
top such as the cliché blood dripping fonts in horror films.

4. • Convention: Something or someone interrupts the normal society of every day.
• For example, in the ‘Red Dawn’ trailer, the government seems to interrupt to calmness
and normality at the beginning.

5. • Inspiration: I find how the sci-fi/thriller genre explores the unpredictable becoming real
such as aliens.
• Additionally, what I find influential is that it sometimes manipulate everyday elements
such as in the movie trailer ‘Alienate’.
• In this part of the trailer, the voice over says, “Don’t drink the water” and the shot shows
an effect of it.

6. • Convention : Taking a realistic situation and highlighting something positive out of it.
• For example, in ‘Welcome to Riley's’, it explores the situation about prostitution amongst
teenagers and the concept of mourning over a child.

7. • Influential: What I find influential throughout the drama genre is that the
characterisations through MES such as costume and makeup are realistic
which makes the audience have a connection with the characters.

8. • Convention: Something which is not human is normally causes the horror.
• Stereotypically, it is usually ghosts and demons such as in the A2 trailer, ‘Paralysis’.
• However, this is slowly changing.
• For example, in the trailer ‘The Pyramids’, its mummies.

9. • Inspiration: Horror storylines are now becoming more based on true stories which is
more scary.
• What I find influential is that the horror genre is starting to in-cooperating history such
as in the new film, ‘As Above, So Below’ which involves the catacombs under Paris
because it highlights – in a scary way – how society was mad.