Megan Griffiths

GENRE OF GROUP FILM PLOT

Moodboard – ‘Teen Drama’ genre films

A teen drama is a genre with the particular focus on the teenage characters. It came into prominence in the early 1990s, especially with the popularity of the Fox series Beverly Hills, 90210. After 90210 became a success, television writers and producers realized the potential for this new genre to reach out to a previously ignored demographic.

More often than not, teen dramas have soap opera elements, incorporating one or more ongoing storylines throughout the film.

The young characters in teen drama films must deal with the dramatic ups and downs of their friendships and romances while facing an array of issues thought to be typical of adolescence.

Moodboard – ‘Phsycological thriller’ genre films

Psychological thriller is a thriller story which emphasizes the unstable psychological states of its characters. In terms of classification, the category is a subgenre of the broader ranging thriller category, with similarities to Gothic and detective fiction in the sense of sometimes having a "dissolving sense of reality", moral ambiguity, and complex and tortured relationships between obsessive and pathological characters. Psychological thrillers often incorporate elements of and overlap with mystery, drama, action, slasher and horror (particularly psychological horror).