Genre means type of film or style of film. Some different types of genres are-

Comedy,horror,sci-fi,thriller,western etc.

Three different things that you might see in a type of genre is the same kind of characters, same kind of narrative and same mise en scene. Thriller films are different form other genres because they can all be very different. The characters are can be very diffident or the mise en scene can be different.

These two films are both thrillers but they are both very different from each other. One is set in the future in space which is about a group of people finding the orgins of earth. On the other side you have snakes on a plane which is set in the present day. Snakes on a plane has snakes which are the threat where as aliens are the threat in Prometheus. The mise en scene is very different in both films.

Prometheus- Alien, Space ship and characters- astronauts, scientist and alien.

Snakes on plane- criminals, everyday people and snakes.

other genres tend to be relatively the same.



Friends with benefits and no strings attached are both romantic comedy's and they are very similar.
They both follow the same story lines - friends who sleep together then fall out but ends with them getting together. The posters even have the same colours.

Thrillers are very varied unlike sci-fi for example which normally uses space for location and has some kind of aliens.

Within a thriller you have a sub genre. Within the sub genre there are similarity's for example a thriller evokes an emotional response from the audience using suspense.
One thing thrillers have in common is something being threatened, something posing as a threat and someone stopping the threat. For example in these three thriller posters we see three different people are looking like they mean business. they all look tough and we wan clearly see their emotions because it is a close up on their face. The man in the grey has a cut on his check and in skyfall he is holding a gun which suggests both films will be violent. salt may appear to females and males because she is a female lead and she is also very good looking as is Liam Neeson and Daniel Craig.

Here are some different sub genres-
action thriller
conspiracy thriller
crime thriller
disaster thriller
erotic thriller
legal thriller
medical thriller
psychological thriller
political thriller
spy thriller
supernatural thriller
horror thriller

When we do our thrillers i would love to do a horror thriller because i love horror films.