What is genre?

Today we learned about genre, this is the summary about genre

Define

Genre: Different types of groups made for different types of written media.

Genre convention: Different types of code such as themes, characters, plot that are seen in a specific genre.

Movie: Circle

Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi

Genre convention: The movie includes 50 participants of strangers with different personalities, the game is played until there's a last one standings which then wins the opportunity to live and a prize cash. The game is held inside a spaceship where they were sucked into. The game has many suspenseful music as it creates a breath-holding sensation as when each player gets voted out, they are rewarded a death penalty. 

Audience:

-Demo: above PG-13, any gender, psychological experiments.

-Psycho: People who enjoy thrillers, people who are willing to learn manipulation tricks, people who enjoy plot twist endings.

How are the audience appealed to: 

As we watch the movie, audience to start to care about the characters. Like for example, if someone that the audience tend to like is treated badly, audience will get upset, or even when someone is sneaky or mean, audience might dislike them. How the characters behave and what happens to them makes the audience feel different emotions, like anger, happiness, or sadness.

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