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Genre Poster

Genre is a way to define a film through it’s main conventions and iconography. For example many films of the fantasy genre have a fairy tale feel to them with lots of magical beasts and wizardry. In the picture above I have drawn some staple iconography of the horror genre onto a poster to expand my knowledge of what can define a genre. Some of these pictures include, killers wearing masks, zombies, ghosts and other strange monsters. These have became common place in horror films due to the critical and commercial success of films such as scream, poltergeist and night of the living dead. This was all to gain a better understanding of genre as a whole and what can define them so for when I create films of my own I can take these conventions into account to create a film that’s true to its genre.

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