BY: AMBER HALLIDAY

Genre is a certain type of category. Its either for film, TV, music or books. The types of genre for film are romance, sci-fi, horror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, western, etc.

Settings where the media is set(its location). Props/costumes objects characters interact with and what they wear. Themes ideas and issues explored within a media text. Plot the story in a media text. Styles visual and audio techniques (camerawork, editing, sound). Recurring icons specific items associated with that genre. Characters and stars character types or actors who appear regularly. Audience reaction how the audience reacts. Characters stereotypical people or actors who

Comedy Adventure Romance Horror Thriller Sci-Fi Fantasy Animated Western

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Indie Pop punk Heavy metal Country

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Punk Rock R&B Techno Rock n Roll Punk Classic Reggae Jazz

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Sitcoms Soaps Documentaries Cartoons/ Anime Music (mtv, Kerrang!, ect.) Dramas Sketch shows Stand ups Panel shows News

Fantasy Anime Fact Crime Thrillers Horror Romance Comedy Comic How to ... ... books

Genre is used to categorise media texts, so it must have certain conventions(rules or expectations), for example, in a horror film, you expect to see murderers, ghosts, blood, death, dead people and screaming. If there was none of those in a horror film, it wouldn't be as interesting, and it wouldn't make any money.