There are many ways to help us establish the genre of a film...
We can look at the sounds in films. A rom-com film may include: diagetic sounds of kissing, laughing- soundtrack would stereotypically be upbeat, happy, may include the word 'love' etc.
We could also focus on the type of camera angles and edits the film uses. A horror film may use: low angled shots to make things appear bigger, more powerful and more menacing, over the shoulder shots to suggest the idea that someone is following them, quick edits to create a feeling of fear and suspense. (The Dutch tilt angle used in 'Virus' was typical of horror films)
Or we could look at the mise-en-scene. The mise-en-scene in an action/adventure film may include weapons and bombs, the weather is usually rainy and the more important fight scenes occur in the night to make it more frightening, army uniforms (Green Zone) sweaty, muscular, dirty men etc.
All these things help us to define the genre of the film.
Genre is the expectation and template for creativity...
Brilliant work Lara. This is really interesting and makes fruitful connections between the work you are doing in the different lessons. I can't watch your bunny film at the moment because the link is broken for some reason (you might like to check?) but I'll Google it. Your text is occasionally masked by all those rampant florals however gorgeous but apart from that, this is turning into a model blog. Do follow up my suggestions in my last comment though.
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