Genre - French for 'type' is a form of categorising all different forms of film, music, books, art and many more forms of media. From genre categorising in film we gain a general idea as to what the films focus will be based on. This is almost a second nature ability that we as the 'audience' through iconography and paradigms can automatically link a film we see or even a poster/advertisement for a film to its genre group. For example if we were looking at a poster for a film and we saw an image of a muscular man walking out of a building mid way through explosion we would presume this was a film of the 'Action - Adventure' genre through the paradigms conveyed through the image such as the typical use of a muscular man a big set piece and a large explosion. Paradigms form the genres of film today in which producers of films that want to produce a certain genre of film will use almost as a template to create there piece and we as the audience expect to see from the film. The following is a link to a genre slideshow in which popular films have there genres explained as well as one or two reasons as to why this particular film fits into this genre of film
You should be able to embed your power point - have a go or see me
ReplyDelete