Genre & Sub-Genre

Genre means what category something goes into. Sub genre's are a part of a certain genre, it is what comes under the main genre.

An example of this would be the Thriller genre. It has many sub genre's that can relate to it. Such as Action Thrillers, Romantic Thrillers and so on.
The sub genre that interests me most is Suspense Thrillers. An example of this would be the film Disturbia. It is about a teenage boy who  has witnessed a murder from his room whilst on house arrest. Through out the film, the boy tries to uncover the murder whilst getting from two friends. 

Since this film was a Suspense Thriller, I think that I could also make my film into this kind of genre. Building suspense in a film is hard, but I think I will have to try it out and see how to improve it. I'd try to use different camera techniques such as extreme close ups and make it seem mysterious.

Intertextuality

Intertextuality is when a director of a film, takes a certain scene from another film and interprets it to their scenes. Some would say that the originatlity of the film may be lost if you take a scene from another film and imitate it into one of their own.

An example of intertextuality is the shower scene from the film Psycho that The Stephfather, Fatal Attractiion and Succubus. The Stepfather has reference from the film Psycho by the curtain beeing pulled down from a person that has been stabbed/sliced. The films are both set in the bathroom so the intertextuality is obvious.

The structure of thriller openings

In lesson I watched certain trailers/ openings of films to show their structure. The 3 examples of structure openings are:

• Narrative opening with titles running through
• Discrete title sequence
• Stylized editing

These 3 are different categories in which i chose out of 7 films and placed them in each structure category. For instance the movie 'The Shining' was put under narrative opening as the cameras main focus is the same through the title sequence, its like a journey as the car is going along a long road. Other films like 'The Taking of Pelham 123' has a stylized opening as the edits are very fancy and styled, fast and straight forward, it also is narrative as audience is given a sense of what will about to happen.

The Shining film opening

The Taking Of Pelham 123 film opening

Art Of The Title

Art of the Title is a website that is very helpful towards Title sequences, trailers, and openings for movies. As projected there, The Number 23 is a Mystery thriller i chose, and it shows a trailer for this film.

Genre and Sub-genre and Audience

Thrillers have different types of sub-genres. Films like In time , Frozen or The Losers are all examples of thrillers but under a different sub genre.

In Time
This movie is a Sci-fi/Romantic thriller. I believe the target audience is ages 15 and on-wards seen as its romantic, there may be sexual scenes. Other than that from other images of this movie it is evident that there will be sci-fi features for instance the time on his hands, and the guns etc.
                










Frozen
This is a psychological-survival thriller. the target audience is ages of 15 again, as this is an example of a horrifying thriller. The director and writer Adam Green enraptured the genre really well, as just by the image it draws the audience in.





The Losers
 This movie is an Action Thriller seen as most actors are holding guns or other weapons. Th bright colors in the background also imply some sort of action or 'wow' factor that may happen.






All these chosen movies show sub-genres within the thriller genre. There are also thrillers that are comedy, supernatural, political and mystery.

Intertexuality.

Intertextuality is basically the relationship between texts, or in this case between Films.It can refer to a director borrowing scenes from another film to transform or pay hommage to that particular film that the scene was borrowed from.
- a good example is, Fatal Attraction. There was a scene in Fatal attraction which was influenced by the pivotal 1960 film Psycho, within the climax of the film, the film's antagonist Alex appears in the bathroom and attacks Beth (Dan's wife who also had an affair with Alex). We see Alex stabbing Beth multiple times à la Psycho. Also Dans rips the shower curtains from their hooks when he falls into the bathtub. When Alex is shot she slowly collapses down the wall, like in Psycho after the women has been stabbed. In both films the women that kills the other is in a bathrobe.