Looking at Film Genres.

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Genre is a French word meaning portrayal of scenes from ordinary life a category of work used in media, for example some different film genres are comedy action and sci-fi. Other movie genres have 'conventions' which are used as building blocks to make genres meaning that different genres have different conventions

Film Genres include:

Horror five horror films are Childs play, the Texas chainsaw massacre, the ring, the puppet master and nightmare on Elm Street these and other horror movie conventions include blood, killing, sudden jumps, ghosts spirits etc. Weapons scary music settings, thunder and lightning revenge and the evil source always comes back.

Comedy five comedy films include daddy day-care, soul plane, blue streak, barbershop and barbershop 2.The comedy movie conventions include Laughter ,silly behaviour, accidents, misfortune, things go wrong, stupid characters, disgusting scenes, funny appearance, costumes, funny voices, dialect and embarrassment.
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Action Five action movies are Chronicles of Riddick, alien vs. predator, the matrix, the matrix reloaded and the matrix revolutions. The action conventions include weapons, killing, explosives, soldiers, warriors, agents, goodie and a baddie.

Sci-fi five sci-fi films are men in black one and men in black two, war games, the Truman show and E.T the extra terrestrial. The sci-fi conventions are computers, technology gone wrong, robots

Romance five romance films are titanic, Wimbledon, Romeo and Juliet, the wedding planner and pretty woman. The romance conventions include love affairs, marriage, divorce, and royalty.

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