What is genre?
1. Genre is a set of conventions-recognisable, usually through iconography, familiar narrative, mise-en-scene, actors, and style of representation.
2. Genres are not static but constantly renegotiated between industry and audience-a combination of familiar reassurance and new twists.
3. A creative strategy used by film producers to ensure audience identification with a film-a way of predicting risk.
4. Genre is a way of working through important myths and fears by repetition-variation and resolution.
5. Genre offers comforting reassurance in an uncomfortable world. Threat is quashed, outlaws become civilised, gangsters are punished. Genre is a way of tidying up the mess of life.
6. Genres function like a language-a set of rules and a vocabulary with which to organise meaning.
Saturday 15 September 2012
Main Task
The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.
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