- Genre, which comes from the French word for 'type', is important for both consumers and media producers. Consumers can make choices about media texts they wish to consume and media producers can create a media text for a specific audience.
If a media producer wants to gain an audience for a particular genre, then they have to understand the genre codes and conventions - and include them in the media text they are creating.
For example, a producer of a TV crime drama will likely feature police characters, crime scenes, suspects, victims and violence. Audiences will also expect certain audio codes such as tense, dramatic music. Genres can be Action, Comedy, Romance, Si-Fi, Period, thriller, crime an so on. This is the different types of genres that can feature in a film. To create these genres you have to make sure the stereotypes are exaggerated. so if its a comedy the characters have to be funny, if its a thriller the characters have to be serious and if its a romance the characters have to be in love.
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