1. Blog Task 4Outsider Genre Task

2. Horror Example- The outsider is a young man, 25 or so.- He doesnt see any human bodies on the floor, until he starts driving a car he found and goes over bumps which turn out to be human skeletons laying roadside- The setting starts off with the man waking up in the countryside, and moving into the nearest by city to look for civilisation.- He learns that the two surviving rival gangs of the city are cannibals, looking for any food they can.- He winds up being chased by one of the gangs to the very end of a backstreet- The outsider narrowly climbs over a fence, however he loses his arm in the process to the cannibals, just as hes making it over the fenceThis film would be categorized as a horror because of how humans have destroyed theearth and everybody around them. So due to the murders / cannibals etc it adds aneeriness and caution to the atmosphere, as any character seeing the cannibals wouldknow that there is danger looming.

3. Rom- Com Example- The outsider is an American girl thats just started a new high school in her senior year.- As shes walking into school on her first day a huge school brawl breaks out with over 50 pupils getting involved- Setting is a run down high school, in Richmond for example. Not much funding / support etc.- The conflict comes between the different social groups at school- She gets bullied at her new high school for having more money than other students, for example she has her own car and lives a lot better off than most of the other students.- She finds comfort in another boy at the high school in the same situation as her and resolves her issuesThis film would be categorized as a romantic comedy because the film wouldfollow the female protagonist throughout, and give the audience her view onher life and everything that takes place. Including the love story between herand the boy that she meets.

4. Action Example- The outsider is a cowboy- He hears pistol shots coming from the nearest town, he goes to investigate.- The setting is in a remote southern town in Texas, a couple of hundred years ago- The two rival gangs pretty much just constantly shoot up the town, in order to try and kill one another- Whilst the male protagonist is in the sheriffs office asking about whats happened, three gang members outside ruthlessly murder his horse, as he can only watch from the window- The sheriff tells him that theres no law in the town, and if he wants to succeed hes going to have to protect and defend himself- He goes outside and kills all 3 gang members