Generic codes and conventions

Generic codes and conventions

GENERIC CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A THRILLER FILM

• Prologue
• Secrecy-gradual unfolding deception
• A twist of some sort –unclear
• shoot outs
• tension
• bloodshed.
• Captivity
• Car chases
• Blasts

GENERIC CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A ROM-COM FILM:

• Boy meets girl girl meets boy
• Fall in love usually at first sight
• Something unexpected happens usually involves another girl or boy
• A solution is found to the problem
• Have a fairy tale ending usually like the book Cinderella
• Two main characters - Boy and girl are persistently adolescents or young mature adults

GENERIC CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A HORROR FILM:

• Young boy and girl - adolescents.-
• Night time - dark – dull and very cold
• Suburb - Middle class.
• Victim - Young girl - Pretty - for all time gets murdered before/despite the fact that /once having sexual intercourse with her boyfriend.