Media Languages- Genre

- Type of category of film
- Way of classifying a film to help us

To identify it so we can
        - Create it
        - Choose it
         - Understand it

Type of Genre

-Thriller ( Shutter Island)
-Horror  ( Orphan)
-Romance ( Titanic)
-Comedy ( White chicks)
- Musicals ( West Side Story)
-Chickflicks ( Wild child)
-Westerns ( Unforgiven)
- Sci-Fi ( Star wars)
- Ron-Cons ( Love Actually)
- Action ( James Bond)
- Documentry ( Supersize me )
- Spoof ( Scary movie)
 -Fantasy (The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe)
 -Gangster ( Donnie Brasco)
- Animation ( Disney )

3 Types of Genre

Major Genre- A dominent, important category
                         Obvious and easy to define.

Subgenre_ A minor category or subdivsion
                   Closely realted to its major genre

Hybrid Genre- Combination of major genres that sometimes creates another type of film
                      eg. Horror/ Western

Concepts of Genres

- Particular audiences likes certain type of film
- helps to anaylise film
- gives the film an identity
- attract a mainstream audience
-target a specific niche audience
-to sell a film
- to create a historical progression

Recoginising Genre

- Generic Codes
- Conventions
- Storyline
- Characters

Signifiers - Physical aspects that we see or hear in a film eg Clothes or Props.
                 - Used to create meaning

Mise-en-scene- is that which we see in the frame of the film. It is that which is " put into" the picture.
                        - Eg set, propes, costumes and landscape.