Genre and Coventions

Every film has different themes and topics they allow the audience to explore.

A Theme within a film can be  defined as a subject of talk, or a continuous subject matter ran throughout the clip, conveying a message or an idea to portray something.

A Topic is a running matter throughout, something worth discussion.

for example:

 

The themes and topics ran through out the film ' Rebel without a cause ' (1955) are controversy, family, violence/murder, underage drinking and romance 

 

 

 

The themes and topics within ' Grease ' (1978) are: musicals, romance, high school, prom, cars, gangs, masculinity vs femininity, summer holidays and comedy.

 

 

 

The themes and topics displayed within the film ' Love and Basketball ' are: American dream, sports - basketball, romance, women independence, friendship and childhood.

 

 

The themes and topics within the film ' My brother the devil ' are sexuality, wanting to grow up fast, drug abuse and gangs an violence.

 

films always have a running theme or standard topic throughout because it gives the film a narrative and background story. Usually the themes are usually something very extreme such as drug abuse and violence, which gives the film an eye opener to viewers; or something relatable such as gang violence and romance as those are two things that happen in day to day life which people can relate to on a regular basis.

 

 

 

A subgenre is a sub division of wide genre for example, sub genre's usually related to teen films are:

• super natural
• thriller
• American high school
• rom com
• Sci Fi ( percy Jackson )
• adventure
• independent.( kidulthood, Juno )