Is the type or category of a film
E.g. Comedy, Horror, Action, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller, Action Adventure, Social Realism
Comedy is a treatment not an actual genre.
6* Star on the exam means spelling,punctuation,grammer needs to be correct for full marks.
Analyse the concept of representation and genre in a media product you have studied.
Genre is a tool that helps us study texts and audience responses to texts by dividing them into categories based on common elements.
These common elements are called generic/coventions/characteriscs/element or tropes.
hybrid genre- mix of genres.
x-men My film is an action film
Term used to refer these more specific genre categories is a subgenre e.g. slasher, zombie, hammer horror, gothic horror. ( genre in a genre)
Barry keith grant 1995 said all genres have subgenres.
x men is a hybrid movie of action and fantasy.This is because it is made up of non human characters.
Why do audiences like genre?
An easy way to chatagories movies. Fulfil audience with familiar film types.
Patrick Phillips 1996 - Genre offers audiences 'comfortable reassurance'
How is your film predictable in terms of genre?
X-men is predictable because of the setting and some characters not being humans gives the audience an idea of what problems would accure living with mutants.
Why do media industries like genre?
Media industries like genre because it gives the audience an idea of the film
Branston and Stfford (1999)
Help to minimise risk and predict expenditure, Are able a blueprint for success and genre conventions also make it easier to market and sell products to audiences.
Marketing - Success
My film was successful.This is because it was released through 20th Century Fox and marketed through their subsidaries.Radio, News, Newspapers, Billboards, Adverts.
What do we like about particular genres, other than familiarity?
Actors playing same role e.g. tom cruise
Certain genres bring out certain emotions.
Rick Altman
Emotional pleasures -Genres offer pleassures ,happy,sad, nostalgic etc.
Visceral Pleasures- 'Gut' responses excitement, fear, laughter etc
Intellectual puzzles- Makes the audience think.
Write down the 'pleasures'that the genre of your film may offer?
Niche - Only a small audience e.g. social relaist films
My film action film X-Men Appocolyps offers inntelectual puzzles through out the film as well as Visceral pleasure, Which is also presented through out the film.
Certain genres reflect wider ideas in society and themes?
E.g. District 9 a Sci-Fi.
David Bordwell 1989 said any theme may appear in any genre
Theme= the ideas, ideologies,concepts. 'myths' etc. that are encoded into a media text.
What are its message, Whats its message
What themes are there in your film? Is this relevant to genre ?
Fantasy,Action Adventure, Drama and Sci-Fi its distopia non of it is reality.The characters are mutants.
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