Genre - The word 'Genre' means a type of film, there are many different film genres in the film industry, a few examples for types of films are: horror, thriller, action, comedy, romance, musical, animation, sci-fi and western. There are two parts to a genre, Macro elements which are the bigger parts of the film and micro elements are the smaller parts of the film. There are many different aspects of a film that makes up the genre, here are a few examples.
Action - An action film is likely to include: A bad guy and a good guy which sums up the storyline, because a majority of the time the good guy is trying to catch the bad guy, or maybe a bad guy is trying to set up a good guy. Many action films include fights, which include physical fights and sources of guns, and to expand on that many action films include explosions. Explosions may be used to capture the bad guy or vice versa, or the bad guy may be blowing up buildings to cause a scene and portray that he is the bad character, which also gives the good guy a hint on what the bad guys plot is and where he may be placed. Also, a lot of the time in action films they have various amounts of transport either blacked out cars, very secure cars, fast/sports cars, helicopters, planes and maybe even scenes where the good guy is chasing the bad guy on the train and vice versa.
Thriller - A thriller is likely to include: A bad guy / killer, more likely to be a cereal killer who goes around killing people, the bad guy character is likely to be a very sneaky but smart character that always knows his plot. Thrillers could be very gory films, which may include props like knifes, guns etc.
Narrative - The word narrative means the story. Which is a sequence of various events, which is regularly classed as the plot.
Narrative Structure - The way the sequence of events are released to the audience. There are two types of forms for the narrative which are linear and non-linear.
Linear - The sequence of the various events are presented in the order that they occurred in from beginning, middle to the end. The linear form is the most commonly used form for the narrative structure.
Non Linear - The sequence of the various events are presented in a different order to what they are supposed to be. For example they can show hints of the end at the start, which makes the audience weary of what is happening, and reassures them that the film is going to be interesting which will give them suspense so they will want to watch and investigate the rest of the film as they are intrigued to find out the plot.
