Generic Conventions

Generic Conventions is what you would expect to see in a certain genre, for example: in a fantasy genred film you would expect to see maybe unicorns, demons, hero's/villains, strange settings, basically things that are fictional and unreal in our world.

Horror genre -

Some things you would expect to see in a horror genre:

• blood
• villain
• damsel in distress
• heroic male or female
• weapons
• dark colors
• scary settings
• undead people/monsters
• bad weather

Science fiction -

In a science fiction film you would expect to see:

• aliens
• spaceships
• rockets
• vibrant colors
• high advanced technology
• abstract outfits
• silver and metal objects
• futuristic sound's
• wide range of different races and species
• lasers
• space setting

Here I have decided to stick with the suggestions such as Horror and Science-Fictions as you are able to relate back to the expectations.

Scream is a good example for Horror- Here it is evidently seen to follow the expectations as it is dark and a woman panicking, the use of dark lighting is also effective and is helps build up the tension, the way the house is also lightened up in the middle of dark area shows it is the target.

Star Wars is a good example for Science-Fiction- In this clip science-fiction is shown superbly through the use of lasers, non-diegetic sound of lasers and flying battleships in space, multiple different types of species such as alien life formality, abstract outfits and is based in space.

This evidence and research is useful to my film making as we try  to make sure the key components seen in Drama stay in our piece and link well to the expected standard of 'Generic Conventions', we will have to research as a group as of Drama key Conventions so we can tie down some of the expected views into our final piece so the users are able to figure out what the Genre the film is when following the Generic Conventions of Drama they are to general knowledge of the film are able to following the film without being left confused.