Genre- A macro element which categorises media products into areas where all of the products share the same charatristics. Genres like 'horror' and 'thrillers' are popular genres of film as they are easily recognised. 'Horror' would involved tense atmospheres. murders and scenes involving lots of blood and scary images. However, 'Thrillers' will also involve blood, except with more violence and more fast moving scenes that involve adrenaline. Genres also have taken into account the audience, for example, a woman may be more enclined to watch a 'rom com' genre than maybe a 'war' genre.
Narritive- This is the way a series of events are put together. For example, when you look for narrative in a film, you would look at the construction of the film. Some films are arranged in different orders where the 'end' is actually at the start of the film and the rest of the film is spent finding out why the end is the way it is. This type of sequence is called non- linear as the events are all in a unusual order to a normal 'beginning, middle, end' sequence. This normal sequence is called linear.
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