Relier Pairs Characteristics of Movie GenresVersion en ligne Top 5 Movie Genres' Characteristics par Dario Gonzalez 1 Characters 2 Creative exceptions 3 Presentation 4 The Purpose of Genre 5 Plot 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. Spoof, Subversion, Genre Switch, Hybrid Genre. How the story is presented to the audience. The narrative structure. These are persons or beings in a narrative. They are recurring in each genre.