Everyone, it's Justin Trevor winners and welcome back to 62nd script school. So, did you write your logline? If not, that's okay, but I highly encourage you to write it before you move forward. Today we're going to be talking about genre. genre is a category that's characterized by similarity in form, style, and subject matter. So there's several genres and sub genres, but we're going to be concentrating on the seven major genres.

All right, 60 seconds on the clock. Hit it. The seven major genres consist of drama, a serious story that involves a central conflict, and an intense struggle could be a social drama, a coming of age, drama, a courtroom drama, comedy, a story in which the central struggle causes comedic results could be screwball could be romantic. Could be fish out of water could be a horror parody or gross out. Action. The story mainly plays out through a clash of physical forces.

They're usually plot driven and not character driven horror. The central struggle in horror stories focuses on escaping from or even defeating a monster. That monster could be human or non human. Could be a ghost serial killer, zombie found footage or even a horror comedy. Romance the central struggle is between two people who have to overcome obstacles in order to win the love of the other. It often ends happily ever after rom com crime.

The central struggle of crime stories is catching a criminal could be gangster crime, cops and robbers, blaxploitation film new our heist or prison fantasy, the central struggle is usually a clash between Great forces and the hero of course has to summon the courage against a formidable foe. So the question is, what is your genre