How the movie 'Twister' fits into the Disaster Genre

The film ‘Twister’ fits into a disaster genre through its film techniques, such as action, sound effects, lighting and music to distinctively fit this film into the disaster genre. Action is a main technique because it creates suspense and overall excitement like when the twister comes racing towards the storm chasers rapidly tearing up houses and destroying power lines. This is usually the part in the film where the most problems happen to the characters. Sound effects are greatly needed because it shows how horrible and frightening the twister is. This also shows when the action is coming which creates emotion amongst the characters. The lighting in the film always gets darker when the twister approaches in the local town, with lightning in the background. This is to scare the audience and create tension because you don’t know if the characters are going to survive or not. The music in the film helps to emphasize an eminent disaster by having fast paced orchestra music which creates fear and destruction that can’t be stopped. There is slower paced music at the end of the film which tells the audience the destruction is over and many people are now safe. All these techniques help to bring the film into disaster genre rather than a drama or action genre. There are also shot techniques such as panning, high shots, low shots and close up shots which fit into the film techniques I discussed. This is used as the audience likes to see emotion in the characters which may summarise the characters. Also many shots surround the action of disaster with high and low shots of panning to show how fast paced and terrible the storm is.