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Coming Soon Movies yet to be released in 2016 What can you predict about this movie? • • • • • • • Plot? Character? Visuals? Music? Editing? Special Effects? Ideology? Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events. What can you predict about this movie? • • • • • • • Plot? Character? Visuals? Music? Editing? Special Effects? Ideology? In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders. What can you predict about this movie? • • • • • • • Plot? Character? Visuals? Music? Editing? Special Effects? Ideology? Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City's own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis' most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it's ever known before. Introduction to Film Genre Please take notes with a minimum of the highlighted text Introduction to Film Genre • Definition from Merriam Webster’s Dictionary – Genre: a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content • A film genre is a category (label) of easily recognisable conventions that exist in any particular set of films Institutional use of genre • Film producers use genre as a means of minimising the economic risk in making films • Film distributors/exhibitors use genre as a means of advertising and promoting films • Both depend upon audiences’ foreknowledge and past experience Audience use of genre • Audiences use genre to give them predictable pleasures when consuming/watching a film • Audiences have certain expectations of genre films Generic conventions • • A film genre is defined by its conventions Generic conventions will vary from genre to genre but will usually involve such areas of repetition as: – Setting – Visual style – Themes – Ideology – Stars – Character-types (including stereotypes) – Narratives (including events and resolutions) – Iconography – Cinematography – Special effects – Sound/music against genres • • • • captive audience (condescends) Dissuades innovation + originality marketing oriented Trivializes the art of film – Genre film = popular = bad in favour of genres • “a work has meaning in relationship to other works” (Barthes) • Includes cultural context & historical perspective • Pleasures of identifying genre features (uses & gratification model) • Guides audience towards a “preferred” reading which can better communicate the film’s content Your turn: Identify the characteristics of these genres Select two or three. Use the conventions (from previous slide) as a guide • • • • • • • • Heist Drama Adventure Comedy Crime Sport Family Fantasy • • • • • • • • • Film Noir Horror Romance Science Fiction Thriller Western Action Musical War Genre Conventions – – – – – – – – – – – Setting Visual style Themes Ideology Stars Character-types (including stereotypes) Narratives (including events and resolutions) Iconography Cinematography Special effects Sound/music Science Fiction