LO3 genera

 

LO3 Genre theory

genre:

 Genre is a way of categorizing a particular media types according to its content and style.

genre can be judged through the: generic conventions/ characteristics/elements or tropes

themes
specific codes and conventions that are expected by the audience
type of product 

film genres: sifi,romance, Rom-com, comedy, horror, thriller, slasher, 

e.g. horror

- monster / evil

- violence / blood 

- jump scare - sound 

- editing

- prince / princes character - needs saving 

- derelict house vast open space 

- low key lighting 

The genre of my product: rim of the world is a sifi, action, comedy 

sifi: aliens, space ships, a heroic protagonist, antagonist, fast editing, advanced technology - SGI ships winning the battle against fighter pilots when the kids are abandoned at the kanoo lake, fighting, nerdy/ smart character (Alex) - "EMP stands for electromagnetic pulse.", 

action: explosions

Key theory : Barry Keith Grant, (1995) - All genres have subgenres (genre within a genre).

sub-genre in rim of the world: comedy

- Dariush is the 'funny' character in the film making multiple jokes such as "between me and you, i just turned the evergreens brown up in this joint" referring to him going to the toilet in the woods.

-there are multiple seance using slapstick comedy such as Alex falling off his bike and Dariush being hit with 'the dragon capsule' door 

Key theory : Patrick Phillips (1996) – Genre offers audiences ‘Comfortable Reassurance’.

In rim of the world the astronaut character being killed by the alien is 'comfortably reassuring' for the audience

Key theory : Branston and Stafford (1999)  

industries use Genres to make it easier to market and cell the product 

Rim of the world had King Batch a well known comedic actor - playing Logan meaning viewer wood expect a comedy 

Key theory : Rick Altman (1999) genre offers pleasures.

Visceral Pleasures: ‘gut’ responses – excitement, fear, laughter etc.

Emotional Pleasures: happy, sad, nostalgic etc

- astronaut get pierced through the mouth with the aliens claw while she is lying on the floor screaming.this is filed from a high angle point of view shot creating the Visceral Pleasure of fear as your seeing this happen from the aliens perspective.

-  the scene where Alex remembers his dad saving him from a fire and dying in the process, creates emotional pleasure making the audience sad and feel sympathy for Alex. 

Key theory : David Bordwell (1989) - said ' any theme may appear in a genre' 

the themes in my product :

- the character Dariush conforms to the stereotype of being rich as he is mean and expects everything to be done for him instead of doing it himself.

- The children in the film are heroic protagonist succeed in saving the world where as the adults as the c adults are shown as prunes characters with high angle shots, they don't succeed and instead die.

- The good vs evil stereotype of dark and light is conformed to by the mis en sen of the dark evil antagonist aliens and the brightly coloured heroic protagonist children. 

- stereotypical location of things going wrong at a summer camp.

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