Genre

Genre

Meeting audience expectations equals pleasure and success when allowing the audience to watch a film. This does not meet every body's expectations due to the type of film the audience are watching. This is GENRE. Everybody has a different "taste" when it comes to films. Some enjoy watching horror movies more than anything, and some prefer comedies. Genre creates a relationship between the audience and the producers which minimise the risk of financial failure. This means that the right people will go and see their preferred GENRE of film in the cinema and most certainly will not be disappointed. Films function like language; they get meaning across to the audience. I would say that Mise-en-scene is the thing that plays a huge, if not one of the biggest roles in a film, and it helps to represent that specific GENRE. Whilst watching a movie we consider its characteristics or key features. Another word for this is CONVENTIONS- features(ingredients) in a film, which help the audience classify it in one GENRE or another. Conventions are broken down into 4 main categories that help us when talking about a film. These are:

• CHARACTERS
  their roles, characteristics, relationships, names, dress codes
• NARRATIVES
  the plot, what happens and how- events
• THEMES
  the ideas behind the story, what the movie's about, reactions
• ICONOGRAPHY
  mise-en-scene, visuals, props, locations, colours, shooting techniques

 The GENRE that my group have chosen to focus on for our video is Crime and Thriller. This means that our clip will have to be dark and shadowy, have low key lighting, have POV shots,  have fast and creepy music and mainly create a sense of fear or at least tension. Some films which are the same type of genre as to what we will be filming are: Kidulthood, Taken, Harry Brown, Ill Manors, Adulthood etc.

Harry Brown

Adulthood

I must say Taken must be my favourite film i've seen lately. Because it is crime it's really enjoyable for me to watch and fits perfectly with what out idea for our sequence is. Showing to sides of action but the violence and suspision in this film make it even more related.


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Another film which I liked and remember watching with mum when I was very young is Pretty Woman. It is a Romance film and does not suit my preferences when it comes to film but I must say the movie did touch me. Editing is just not recognisable. As you watch this film it just flows soo well that you do not realise the editing is there.