Chritie and I have made a mind map of the most popular genres. This was it make us aware of the wide range of genre and picking horror was the best choice for us!
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Crime
Drama
Historical
Musical
Dance
Science fiction
War
Western
Romance
Crime/Drama
Rom/Com
Action/adventure
Fantasy
Disaster
Chick Flicks
Animated
Childrens
Sports
We also took alook at some of the genres and found examples of each genre, to get a story line of each genre.
Action-Bad boys II
2003
Directed by Michael Bay
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
Staring- Martin Lawrence and Will smith
Plot-Cars, Guns, drugs and Marcus and Mike two Miami policemen try and catch a drug dealer who is transporting drugs from Cuba. Until Martin Lawrence’s sister comes to town who is a DEA undercover agent who is trying to do the same as her brother but happens to get in the way. Meanwhile His sister and Will young are a couple. The 3 of them come together and put there difference aside to focus on the task ahead.
Adventure-Back to the Future
1985
Director- Robert Zemeckis
Staring- Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson
Plot- A young teenage boy, who is living in a small town, who doesn’t have a very good family, every family member, seems to be broke in some way. Marty isn’t proud of them but loves them all the same. Marty who has an unusual friend call Doc martin, who is a crazy scientist, who has a car which can travel though time. When they go back in time he sees his family and how his mother and father were before they got married. Things start to happen, which leads to the unusual event of his own mother falling in love with her own son. A race against time to get his mother to stop loving him and get his mother back in love with his father.
Comedy-Bridesmaids
2011
Produced- Apatow productions
Directed- Paul Feig
Staring- Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Maya Rudolph
Plot- Lillian is getting married and she asks her childhood friend to be her maid of Honor she agrees when though she feels their relationship will change with her best friend. When Annie (maid of Honor) meets the rest of the bridesmaids, Annie starts to feel left out when all the other bridesmaids upstage her. Things soon spiral out of control and Annie finds herself not maid of honor and alone. Can she make everything okay again?
Drama- Shawshank Redemption
1994
Director- Frank Darabont
Writer Stephen King
Staring- Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman and Bob Gunton
Plot- Andy dufresne is a young man who is a happily married man; also he is a successful banker. Unfortunately his wife has affair, which leads to Andy finding out and killing them both, or does he?? He gets life and sent to prison where he finds a friend in Morgan Freeman (Red). Andy doesn’t have a good time in prison he is beaten up by certain characters. As time goes on and gets used to life there and the bulling stops. As he is a very intelligent man he understands that he can have a nicer time in prison, and as he is a banker he knows all the tricks of the trade which leads in to being the banker for all the guards and the warden. Andy has said from day one that he never killed his wife but no one believes him. Years later, one morning Andy isn’t there when the guards come to unlock his cell, everyone is in complete shock of how he got out. He dug his way out of prison every night with a little hammer and has all the wardens’ money as the warden isn’t very truthful.
Historical- The Kings Speech
2010
Director- Tom hooper
Writer- David Seidler
Staring- Colin Firth, Geoffrey rush and Helena Bonham carter
Plot- The story is about a man who becomes King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. As his brother abdicates to marry an American, Bertie (George VI) has a dreaded stammer and is considered to be an unfit King. So now he has to learn to overcome his speech impediment so he goes to a speech therapist, an unlikely friendship is gained through his, but will Bertie’s stammer go at long last.
Walk the Line
2005
Director- James Mangold
Writers- Johnny Cash (book) Gill Dennis,
Stars- Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Ginnifer Goodwin
Plot- Can a woman’s love saves a man? In Johnny Cash’s life yes she can. The loss of his brother and this father’s affection, he turns to drink and drugs. With a life of unhappiness he meets the women that will save him, June Carter and her family nurse him back to health.
Dance- Save the Last dance
2001
Director- Tomas carter
Writers- Duane Adler
Staring- Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas and Kerry Washington
Plot- Sara has dreams of being a ballerina, however her dreams are cut short when the tragic dead of her mother, so has to be relocated to Chicago to a ghetto apartment to live with her father who she hasn’t seen in years. Sara blames herself for her mother’s death and stops dancing altogether. While attending a predominantly black school she becomes friends with a girl and while falling in love with her brother and also falls in love with dancing again Derek helps her overcome her past and moves her in to the future.
Science fiction- Inception
2010
Director- Christopher Nolan
Writer- Christopher Nolan
Staring- Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page
Plot- A dream within a dream within a dream, Dom is able to use a unique skill to his advantage, which lets him go into people minds and read their dreams. And now has a task to break into the mind of a man called Fischer who has to a business empire to plant an idea. For doing this successfully will allow Dom to come to the USA without getting arrested to see his children, A race against time to get out of the mind of Fischer before they run out of time.
