Information on each genre.

1. A supernatural thriller with a strong female lead.

Info: Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, television, and gaming that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively.

Related Films: Resident Evil (though this is thought of as a horror it contains a strong female lead), The Silence of the Lambs, The Bourne Identity.

2. A British social realist drama.

Info: Social realism in films is representative of real life, with all its difficulties. The stories and people portrayed are everyday characters, usually from working class backgrounds. Typically, films within the social realist canon are gritty, urban dramas about the struggle to survive the daily grind.

Related Films: This is England, The Full Monty

3. An adventure story for younger audiences.

Info: Adventure films are usually exciting stories, with new experiences or exotic locales, very similar to or often paired with the action film genre. They can include traditional swashbucklers, serialized films, and historical spectacles (similar to the epics film genre), searches or expeditions for lost continents, "jungle" and "desert" epics, treasure hunts, disaster films, or searches for the unknown.

Related Films: The Goonies, Flight of the navigator, Indiana Jones

4. A teenage romantic comedy.

Info: A teenage romantic comedy is a romantic comedy targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers, such as coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst and alienation. Often these normally serious subject matters are presented in a glossy, stereotyped or trivialized way. Films in this genre are often set in high schools, or contain characters that are of high school age. Sexual themes are also common, as are nudity and crude forms of humour.

Related Films: American Pie, Superbad.

5. A crime caper with an ensemble cast.

Info: A Crime Caper is a film that has an intricate plot woven around a group of people trying to steal something. Versions with dominant or prominent comic elements. Typically, there are many plot twists, and film focuses on the characters' attempts to formulate a plan, carry it out, and escape with the goods. There is often a nemesis who must be thwarted: either a figure of authority or a former partner who turned on the group or one of its members.

Related Films: Oceans 11, Snatch, Reservoir Dogs.


Tom Turpie.