LO3: Genre theory

Genre is a type or category of film 

• horror
• comedy- a threatment that would feed into other genre 
• romance
• war
• action/adventure
• scifi
• fantacy
• thriller
• social realisme

EXAM QUESTION

6* Analyse how the production techniques used to create meaning in a media product you have studied (12)

Micro-Macro

6* Analyse the concepts of 'genre' and 'representaton' in the media product you have studied (12)

Micro-Macro

A genre has common elements are called generic coventions/characters/elements

 

Southpaw is an action, thriller, sport, drama, film

Key theory:Barry Keith Grant (1995) : All genres have subgenres

a possible subgenre of my film is

Key theory; Patrick Philips 1996-genre offers the audience 'comfortable reassurance'

my film provides familiarity to an audience by having a mildly typical story line of this type of film

key theory: Branston Staford 1999-

• genres help minimise risk
• are a blue print for success
• genre conventions also makes it easier to market and sell products to audiences

My film was advertised through following in the footsteps of other sucsesfull boxing movies i.e. Rocky

Rick Altman (1999) geners offers pleasure

• emotional plesure- happy, sad
• visceral pleasures- exitement, fear, laughter
• intelectual puzzles- makes the audience think

my film makes the aduience have emotional pleasures sadness when his wife dies and his dughter is taken away

 

Key theory: David borwell 1989- any theme may apeare in a genre

theme= The ideas, ideologies, concepts, myths, ect

the themes in my films is about

• the theme is rags to riches/riches to rags

KTA 5

define gere (intro)

relate the key theories to my film

different types of sound can have different connotations to the audience and creates a mood

dieresis- it the narrative construct that everything takes place in, it is the 'story world /the world that the film/TV programme takes place in

real diegesis appears in turn with virtualimisitude

diegetic sounds are form noises that are occurring in the film to make effect i.e. foot steps these are added during post production to create meaning.

Diolouge is the voice of the characters on screen

accent is the way you pronounce words this is dependent on where you live

dialect it the words you use this is dependent on where you live

tone is the emotion that something is said with

mode of address either informal or informal

• peer to peer
• parent to child
• teacher to pupil

synchronous sounds are sound that are synchronised or matched with what is viewed.

ambient sound is a sound that are used to establish location

non diegetic sound is a sound that is not there for real and is put in for effect i.e. jaw theme tune

sound bridge is when a non diegetic sound becomes diegetic by moving from here we cant see the source of the sound to where w can see the source of the sound

incidental music is composed to accompany the action of a drama of to fill intervals between scenes, this gives hint to what is going to happen next and builds tension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jygRWM3nIA0

stings are used as a distinctive back ground music to add emphesis to an important moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9cRzZntUh0

motifs conditional the audience emotionally for the arrival or actions of a character 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8

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