genre.

Genre conventions.

As part of my film I have to decide upon a genre and with my story in mind the genre I will be looking at is the genre of post apocalyptic horror.

In order to achieve in my aims and context I must follow many conventions from this genre it self.

Films made of this genre are usually low budget and consist of similar story lines like 28 days later and doomsday. Where there is some form of outbreak or some form of disaster that affects either a country or the world.
The main features of the film however usually don’t include the actual outbreak or disaster but do have reference at the beginning in order to allow the audience to understand the diegiesis of the film.
There is often use of long shots which establish the scene and portray a character as being lonely.
Also the use of iconic areas like above the Big Ben tower which is usually really busy yet in this sequence there is know one around.

Many films of this genre typically use very little lighting as to create the sense paranoia and loneliness.
There Is also always the character that dies within the sequence creating emotional reactions from the audience and this is usually an older character who is portrayed as either the father or mother of the group in which are trying to survive.

Many films of this genre have a creative narrative in were the characters chance of survival is extremely minimal and so they often show other groups trying to and often there is a collaboration at some point but not all groups have the same agenda for example in Diary of the dead the military use their weapons and authority for self benefit. Also at the start of many post-apocalyptic films there is use of samples from news television and radios recording the screams and events that had unfolded previous to the film. like I said above this is often used to show the audience what happened previously.