The Concept Of Genre

From this lesson i learnt how conventions can either help or restrict film production and as a result they are shown to be more helpful than restricting, however they do partly restrict the film makers during production. The ways in which they help producers is that the codes and conventions of the genre they want to produce help them build a foundation to their film, such as what they need to include. I.e. setting, props, characters, plots. However this can be restricting to the producer as if they do not include the foundation to their media or build too far off of the foundation the audience can loose their expectations and be disappointed with the production. Genre evolution has helped producers as most films in modern day can be fixed into multiple genre, so therefore producers can include multiple different foundations within the production. The use of another story line helps a production also as the audience expects to have the same equilibrium, dis-equilibrium and new equilibrium or otherwise they are disappointed, so the producer can use someone else's story but then they just add to it so that the audience do not get bored seeing the exact same film as another. The one problem with repetition or genre evolution is that it is hard to produce a story line that has not been produced before, so therefore it is hard to make an original.