Genre

My film doesn't really have a set genre; it is definitely not a horror, a thriller, not a romance or a drama, and not a western or comedy either. As such, I would probably need to decide what to call this new genre, or what to combine it with, as genre is a key aspect of marketing a new film. The closest genre to my film would be an adventure film, but it's more about self-discovery than going on an actual adventure, and without any action. It would be crossed with an art film, so it has a more melancholy feel while showing the character during new experiences, as is usual in adventure films. To conform to the genre of adventure, my film will include new experiences and exotic locales, which is one of the points of an action film. They do not put so much emphasis on violence and action as action genre (my film will probably not include any violence), but focus more on travels, conquests, explorations, struggles and situations that confront the main character.


Genre is so important because it labels the film and allows the viewer to know what they're going to watch, ad what to expect from the film; genre is considered to function in the same way as a language system does.