Thursday, 9 September 2010

Task 1

What is meant by the term genre?

Genre is the way you can class something like a film, tv show or a music artis into a group or category to find out its purpose or its selected target audience.

Give one example of a film genre and list the typical codes and conventions for that genre.

Horror- designed to; scare,cause dread or alarm, awoke hidden fears, captivate and shock. To create different fears such as fear of the unknown. Characters - lead character (usually the one that survies) The killer (trademark charactistics in the way he kills so you can identify the killer) normally good v's evil and mostly the good guy defeats the evil.

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3. Take your favourite film or a film you have recently watched. state the genre of the film and explain some of the codes and conventions used to make it recognisable as belonging to the genre it started

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