The concept of Genre

 Genre is a form of classification. Audiences are idenified by the diffrences between them as it descibed what kind of film it is. There are different types of genres and they have to keep changing so that it brings in an audience. However films cannot be just one they are usually always more than one as their labelling systems are often too large.

 In genres there is a need for repition so that it can be categorised into a certain group and recognised through the conventions such as iconography, the plot, actors etc. Familiarity is also needed so that the audience feels safe in the knowledge of what they are going to see and reinforce their expectations. However variation is important otherwise the audience would get bored of seeing the same thing over and over again.

 The most limited way of understanding genre is hybrids and hybridisation because the film could then only fit into two categories e.g. romantic comedy. Whereas a sub-genre is a way of being able to categorise it but much more efficiently such as it being a science fiction but then being even further categorised by being put into something such as a group called space exploration. The way in which hybrids develop from a 'classic' from of genre is by getting ideas from previous films in that genre but also from the surrounding of life such as social, cultural, economic and political changes. However sub genres build up from different films through time.

 When starting the film making process and my research into thrillers, i will have to consider what has been done already and how i can keep some familiarity of previous thrillers but also change it enough so that it is something new and different. The process of having to do a thriller limiting because it has to be a certain type of movie with familiar conventions of a thriller. However apart from that there is still various options that we can choose from because there are many different types of thrillers such as psychological thrillers, crime thrillers etc.