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Genre is a French word meaning portrayal of scenes from ordinary life a category of work used in media, for example some different film genres are comedy action and sci-fi. Other movie genres have 'conventions' which are used as building blocks to make genres meaning that different genres have different conventions Film Genres include: Horror five horror films are Childs play, the Texas chainsaw massacre, the ring, the puppet master and nightmare on Elm Street these and other horror movie conventions include blood, killing, sudden jumps, ghosts spirits etc. Weapons scary music settings, thunder and lightning revenge and the evil source always comes back. Comedy five comedy films include daddy day-care, soul plane, blue streak, barbershop and barbershop 2.The comedy movie conventions include Laughter ,silly behaviour, accidents, misfortune, things go wrong, stupid characters, disgusting scenes, funny appearance, costumes, funny voices, dialect and embarrassment. Action Five action movies are Chronicles of Riddick, alien...

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