My film doesn't really have a set genre. It doesn't fit under an obvious category but if it had to be, it would be a mix between Art Cinema, or Drama. It is aimed at a certain type of audience and it focusses on the main characters dreams and feelings and there isn't a clear story, yet there is a distinct relationship between two characters.
This film could also be classed under drama because it involves realistic characters dealing with emotional themes.
Genre is important as it gives a set way to shape the film and describe it. Patrick Phillips (1996) said - "Genres are formal systems for transforming the world in which we actually live into self-contained, coherent and controllable structures of meaning. Genres can thus be considered to function in the way that a language system does - offering a vocabulary and a set of rules which allow us to 'shape' reality, thus making it appear less random and disordered. At an ideological level, genre offers a comfortable reassurance, closing down the complexities and ambiguities of the social worlds we actually inhabit, replacing them with patterns of order and continuity deriving from the conventions of genre itself. Transforming the experience of living into a set predictable conventions provides a number of pleasures. These include anticipation of these predictable features and satisfaction when expectations are fulfilled. (At the same time the 'mix' of elements is slightly different each time thus providing just enough uncertainty for the spectator to be held by anxious curiosity).''
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