Genre in film helps both institutions and audiences. When films are grouped in Genres they are placed according to similar characteristics or features. This allows audiences to pre-empt which films they may enjoy watching and allows institutions and film makers to make films relevant to a specific genre so that it will definitely find an audience. Genre is usually broken down into 4 main categories as shown below on our brainstorm:
The aspects highlighted in a white oval are those which are present in our opening sequence. Since most of the aspects are highlighted our openign sequence does follow the normal convention of an action thriller.
