Research And Planning: Genre

I am going to research different genres to help me make up my mind on which genre to use for my teaser trailer. The 4 genres i have chosen to research horror, thriller, action and comedy.

The first genre i researched was horror, a horror film is designed to panic and scare the person watching the film, to do this a horror film must contain silences, sound and sound effects to build an eerie atmosphere, scenes to make the viewer jump. Some horror films are the viewers worst nightmare which is what makes them more scary, such as ghosts as seen in the film the haunting, demons as seen in the film OMEN, psycho killers for example in halloween and jason X and sometimes just things like rollercoaster crashes, airplane crashes which are seen in the final destination films or even just a disease outbreak can scare people for example in the film cabin fever.

Last exorcism trailer

The second genre i chose to research was thriller, i think that the thriller genre in some ways is quite similar to the genre horror, a thriller is designed to cause tension and excitement and maybe cause the viewer to be abit uneasy and on edge, films that fit into the thriller genre are films which contain crimes, psychological thrillers and mysteries. Some of the most popular thrillers are films such as the godfather, psycho, the dark night and the silence of the lambs which can also be classed as a horror. If you are going to make a successful thriller the film must contain suspense, quick cuts, sound that will cause tension.

Devil

The third genre i chose to research was comedy, comedy is one of my favourite genres along with horror. Comedy is designed to make the viewers laugh, there are lot of different types of comedy for example slapstick, black or dark comedy and spoofs such as scary movie. To make a good comedy you need well known actors or actors that usually star in comedy film eg. will ferrell, it must contain gags and jokes or just silly things that will make people laugh. Most comedy films tend to have a happy ending lighten the mood.

 Here is the trailer for The Other Guys which is a new comedy film coming out in cinema.



The last genre i chose to research was action, action films usually contain great editing, chases, big stunts and explosions and fighting. The usual narrative for and action film is good guy/girl versus bad guy/girl. A typical type of action film would be mission impossible, james bond type films. I think that the main target audience for a good action fil is probable boys because most of them are into guns cars and explosions. Some of the most popular action films are inception, the matrix, the great escape.

 Wanted Trailer