Genre is a classification of film types, examples include: horror, crime, comedy, animation, children, sci-fi, action/adventure, romance. There are also sub genres, like Rom-Com and Slasher films (horror - like Scream and Halloween 1978)

 

Genres that are usually associated with single camera productions are:

 

- Crime, this is because crime programmes normally focus upon a single member of a team of detectives, or a single criminal, this means that the camera will be continusly watching the character, and whats going on around them. An example of this is Breaking Bad, this is because this show flows around Walter White, and the development of his life of crime; the show is always shot with one camera.

 

- Horror, this is because you always want to see it from their perception (the actors), and that you always, want to see their reactions, this leads to there being alot of stop, start in the filming of horrors. However there are certin sub genres within horror, that single camera productions relate to. This is "found footage" -- the hand-held technique is a style of documentary storytelling, or mockumentary filmmaking in the context of fictional stories, combining natural shooting with stylized cinema elements of editing and staged set-ups. This is because you are doing a 'mockumentery' style show, thus showing it from one cameras

An example of this is Cannibal Holocoust, this is because it follows around people, with a single camera, showing it from only one perspective.

 

Documentry, this is because documentry follows around - one group of animals, or it uses old footage - this is generally edited together single camera footage, or it uses face to camera interviews.

An example of this is Planet Earth. This is because it uses single cameras to follow round groups of animals/animals by themselves to observe their daily life.