Genre

Why do you think audiences, producers, and distributors need to know what genre their film is?

To clarify a market to target it towards

Generic conventions of a horror:

Common fear

Gorr

Suspense

Make you feel vunerable

The key elements that you should be looking to fall under come under the following headings:

Iconography - A gangster film usually involves smoky bars, jazz music, and guns.

Style - Low key lighting, urban location, element of suspicion and crime.

Narrative - Todorov - Equilibrium, disequilibrium, equilibrium.

Characters

Themes

Setting

Audience response - Sensation, emotional, empathy, shock, adreniline.

Target audience