Genre

                                                                           

Learning Objective: To be able to identify a film’s genre

Learning Outcomes:

·         All of you will be able to explain the genre of a film and give 3 reasons for your judgement

·         Most of you will also be able to give specific examples from the film to back up your point

·         Some of you will also be able to use correct media language in your explanations

Keywords

·         Conventional: What you expect (from a genre)

·         Unconventional: What you would not expect (from a genre)

·         Diegetic sound: The sound comes from the film world

·         Non diegetic sound: The sound would not be heard in the film world

Task 1

	Genre:  Thriller	Genre: Comedy	Genre: romance	Genre: adventure
Sound	Non diegetic, scary screechy sound or violin	Off screen sound, happy music	Happy songs	Drums,
Location	A scary house, a grave yard	House	Restaurant	Jungle
Characters	A victim, a killer, police and a hero	Girlfriend. Girlfriends family, boyfriend	Hot, attractive women, random guy	Hero, villain, female explorer, female explorer’s dad
Camera Movement	Tracking and zoom	panning	follow	pan

Narrative	A serial killer on the lose searching for his ex wife who has moved. Although  serial killer is not too pleased about this so he decides to go on the hunt for her	A girl takes her boyfriend to meet her family	The attractive women’s been single most of her life, and finds its hard to meet the guy of her dreams, comes across a random guy and falls in love.	Female explorer and dad looking for treasure, they get captured by the villain and the hero saves the female explorer and the dad
Lighting	Low key lighting	Top lighting	High key lighting	Natural lighting