Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Genre

Genre is the means by which any media texts are categorised in order to clarify audiences understanding and meaning.

Types -
  • Horror
  • Romance
  • Crime
  • Sci-Fi
  • War
  • Action
  • Documentary
  • Fantasy 
  • Adventure 
  • Western
  • Period/Historical 
  • Musical
Borrowed interest
Why genre? - Can advertise to the right target market.
-Viewers that go see that genre probably like it.
Why hybrid genre? - Can borrow interest to get more viewers, fans of both genres.
- Introduces other genre lovers to new genres.

Hybrid Genre - 
Comedy + Romance - 10 things I hate about you
Western + Sci Fi - Star Wars
Historical Musical - Les Miserable
Horror + Thriller - Final Destination
War + Historical - Saving Private Ryan

Key Conventions of genres - 
Action -  Explosions, Hero, Heroine, Villain, Fighting, Love Interest etc. 
Romance - A problem, boy and girl, the big 'kiss', happy ending etc.


1 comment:

  1. good notes from the lesson - you now need to make it interactive
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    create a mixed media presentation showing understanding of the films that you have chosen - the quickest and most interesting way would be to discuss scenes from them either to camera of by using voicethread,com

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