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What is meant by the term genre?
Genre – This can defined by the type of diegetic sound within a film as well mise-en-scene, genre can also be attributed to the style of a director. The term genre means an artistic style with a particular form, technique or style brought to a film.

Give one example of a film genre and list the typical codes and conventions for that genre.
Film genre – Horror
Typical codes and convention – close up shots, extreme close ups, dark lighting, back lighting, Blood, sharp objects, the killer, the hero, the damsel in distress, focused depth of field, shallow depth of field, framing, non diegetic sound, diegetic sound of a particular song for which the killer is known, haunted house, derelict building, woods, countryside, isolation.

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Genre- Comedy
This is a typical comedy film using the correct codes and conventions to put its genre across to the audience. We can define its genre with the type of mise-en-scene that is used with colourful backgrounds in familiar settings such as work and home. Other conventions use in this comedy is comedians used to play the parts of the main character e.g Seth Rogan. When the audience see this character they immediately accept the genre as comedy. Other conventions use in this film was props to create slapstick comedy for example when the character Saul is ran over by the cop car a red slushy is used to create the impression of blood on the windscreen which is use as a distraction for their escape from someone who is willing to help them.