Thursday, 13 October 2016

Genre definitions

Genre: A way of categorizing films by their themes

Sub-genre: A sub-division for a films genre.

Hybrid genre: A blend of themes and elements from two or more genres.

Codes and conventions: Signifiers of genre, the way equipment is used to tel a story in a media text.

Genre tropes: A familiar and repeated symbol, meme, theme, motif, style, character or thing.

Genre: Comedy

Signifiers: Actors = Steve Bushemi known for being a comedy actor.
Costume = actor on the left is wearing very relaxed clothing gives an idea to the character he is in the movie.












Genre: Action

Signifiers: actors = John Travolta classic action movie actor (type casted actor).
Props: the use of what look like actual guns show the audience the tense nature of the movie.
Costume: suits connote wealth and money is a common theme in action movies.

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