Genre notes

Describe

In detail

Settings - location, time period

Themes - love, guilt, revenge, good vs evil

Icons - significant props

Narrative - how a story is told (plot)

Characters- boy/girl, their background

Textual analysis- style of camera, editing, mise en scene and sound

Genre theorist

Steve Neale - genre can be dominated with repetition but are also marked by difference, variation and change, the idea of genre change, develop and vary, as they develop and overlap with one another. You can also have hybrid genres (rom-com).