Genre is one of the key areas in which the film makers need to base their film around. Genre allows them to categorize their film, each different category of genre would appeal to a different audience. For example, ‘Need For Speed’ has the action genre and is based around cars, this would attract a larger male audience rather than a female audience, as it appeals more to the male audience as cars is stereotypically what men are interested in, where as women stereotypically would be more attracted to seeing a film with a Romance genre. However, some film makers create a hybrid genre, this allows them to appeal to an even greater audience, this would be because, for example, a romantic/comedy would attract the female audience for the romance of the film, where as the comedy aspect of the film would attract more males to see the film. Genre is important to audiences as it would allow them to see more clearly what they would like to watch, for example people which would like movies which contained a lot of fighting or high speed chases would watch films categorized under action, this would allow them to identify their specific interests more easily and this would make choosing the film they want to see more easily.
Genre can be identified easily through Nick Lacey's schema of genre, genre is identified by him through; - Mise en scene - Setting - Narrative - Iconography - Technical Codes
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