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Romantic Comedies

The typical story lines:

1. Boy meets girl
2. Boy loses/can't get girl
3. Boy gets girl.

These are the rough outlines of a Romantic Comedy, the guy is usually very stressed about getting the girl, during his mission he usually comes across some humorous events in his quest to get his love. These films are often cheesy but likable at the same time, just like this paragraph (:


Thrillers

A thriller often has one goal that is to be met by the end of the film, during this process there is a tendency to to keep the audience in suspense and thrilled at the same time with them hanging at the edge of their seats.
Thrillers have more of a broad range of story lines than a Romantic Comedy, you just don't know whats going to happen.


Horror films

These are supposedly meant to horrify you about you inner worst fears while captivating and entertaining us at the same time,with a terrifying shocking finale.They are often combined with science fiction when there is some sort of monster involved with the interference of technology.



Analysis of the opening to a Horror film: The Grudge 3

The Grudge 3 is part of a sequel therefore opened with clips from the first two films. To show that they were clips from the past they were shown in black and white and flashed every few minutes,this conveys that this is not part of the film but a flashback to recap the previous series. The language spoken in this scene was in Japanese, so there were also clear English subtitles written in white at the bottom of the screen.The majority of these shots were done by using a hand held camera, this gave off more of a real life effect, and looked like the audience was sneaking a preview, this draw the audience into the film because they fell like they are a part of it.

The opening credits began straight after the recapping of the first two films.This was shown with a bloody red background and thin black writing appearing at the corner of the screen, with rich black hair creeping onto the screen. This really gives an incite into what kind of a film it was going to be, because this particular film is the third out of three it is the last of the series therefore expects you to know some things that are coming up.

When the actual story of the film begins it starts in silence, but when anything creepy happens blunt music suddenly starts with a slow zoomed in camera shot. When the first two characters of the real story start talking, they are still talking in Japanese, and they are of the Japanese ethnicity. Therefore the link between the first clip shown and the begining of the actual story is there. This shows that the subtitles on the page can make a big difference on the influence of what the audience think about what is going on, and what's going to happen!