Semantic

Features and
Syntactic
Elements

Semantic Features
These are features that help to show and
communicate a specific genre to the audience
watching. These are some examples of semantic
features:
Characters
Location
Props
Music
Costume
Shooting style
Makeup

Syntactic Elements
Syntactic elements is the relationship
between the conventions and the structure
of the narrative in the genre.
Convention

Storyline

Genre

e.g. Blood

Someone being killed

Horror