Syntactic semantics

• The semantic approach

These are the elements that build up to create the genre. Sound, editing, costume, mise en scene, location, lighting, editing are all factors involved within that’s give the film its certain genre.

For example horror films tend to use dark lighting and dull scenery especially in comparison to a love film or comedy. Often location of horrors are all set in one place for example a forest or a deserted houses where as in a sci-fi film the locations tend to be space or an unknown planet.

Unlike in most other genres horrors attempt to create a lonely isolated feeling which will make the audience feel more feared and scared.

A similarity with horrors and other genres is the fact that they all have parts where the viewer can guess what happens next, tension builds up an the audience is left guessing and expecting

The syntactic Approach

These are the specific generic moments within the film to represent its genre.Firstly the characters are introduced to the views so they can create a relationship. This is then followed by the middle section where there is the major events, for example the problem will be made noticeable and the audience will start seeing the issues, sometimes a death will have also taken place by this point in the movie. Gradually the deaths increase and the audience is made aware of how serious/scary this situation really is.In trailers is no certain order which these events have to happen in, they can be mixed up to hook the audience and keep them engaged. The aim of the trailer is not too fully tell the story however just give the audience an insight into some of the action: enough to engage them and want to watch the full film.