Narrative and Genre

A narrative is an account of connected events or simply a story. Narratives can come in many forms such as fiction and non-fiction or linear and non-linear. The narrative is the story of the film and is what connects separate events together to develop a plot-line.

The genre is the different type of film for example horror, comedy or thriller. Genres are split up into many categories and sub categories and also hybrids. The thriller genre is the genre that I will base my film around and this genre can be split up into many sub genres such as psychological, crime or action thrillers.

Genres are there to be broken because they all contain specific elements or 'recipes' for the perfect/typical genre movie however these are their to be broken and when they are broken they create interesting and new hybrids and sub genres that do not fit into the mould and ask questions of the audience.