Film Genre (Setting, Theme and Format)

There is around 20 categories in which a movie can fit. This blog will talk about film genre. Usually, a movie fits in a category based on: the setting, the theme, the mood and the format. The setting is where the movie takes place. The theme is the main subject of the movie. The emotion that people get from a movie is called the mood. And at last, the way the movie was made (equipment, digital) is called the format.

You can also put a "tag" on a movie by picking a specific audience for your movie. A film can have many genres combined in the same movie, which in my opinion makes it way more interesting.

Some people think that movies always fit into more than one category. Because often you will find romance in action or horror movies...

• It is debated that a movie genre could also be categorized because of the following:
  "Idealist method": Categorized into a genre by fitting "standards".
• "Empirical method": Categorizes a movie by other previous movies that have elements in common.
• "Social conventions": A movie classified to the country's social cultural beliefs (What is a romance in Europe could be an erotic movie in Canada).
  

Themes - Here are some very common themes in movies

1. Sports movies: Include baseball, hockey and boxing.
   
2. Espionage: About crime activities, either from the criminal perspective, or the security perspective
   

Here are the different format movies:
A format of live action is basically a movie with actors to present a story.

• An animation movie is another type of format. It involves 2-D pictures, made like a cartoon.
• A biography is about somebody that contributed to change the human world in any way, and presents real facts of that person's life.
• A documentary also presents real facts, but as a way to inform of an existing problem.

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