Genre is a certain type of media such as comedy, horror, action etc in films we have many genres for the audience to distinguish between each of them and are able to just watch the kind of genres they enjoy or ones they don't. There can be many kinds of genres you can have a major genre which means a film that that has a dominant category, a subgenre which means a minor genre in a major genre such as a psychological thriller or spoof horror and finally a hybrid genre which means two genres merged into one like a Rom-Com.
Genres can be distinguished by its plot, camera, mood, settings and many other things but most importantly generic conventions. Generic conventions are techniques used to show the genre such as blood for a horror or love for a romance. They use signifiers which would be something like a gun for an action to show the genre straight away by that weapon because it is distinguished to that genre this is also known as semiotics meaning everything that is on screen has some kind of meaning behind it.
Generic conventions can range from themes to actual mise-en-scene, such as for a thriller a generic convention could be something such as mystery but it could also be a narrative of following a specific person because most thrillers do this.
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