Relacionar Columnas Characteristics of Movie GenresVersión en línea Top 5 Movie Genres' Characteristics por Dario Gonzalez 1 Presentation 2 The Purpose of Genre 3 Plot 4 Characters 5 Creative exceptions How the story is presented to the audience. The narrative structure. Spoof, Subversion, Genre Switch, Hybrid Genre. To set up audience expectations and to provide a roadmap for storytellers. It is how the formal elements of a film are put together: cinematography, costumes, editing, music, setting, atmosphere. These are persons or beings in a narrative. They are recurring in each genre.