Wednesday, 5 October 2016

LO3 Genre Theory

Genre: Type, category.

-Horror
-Action
-Comedy
-Sci-Fi
-Thrillers
-Psychological Thrillers
-Adventure
-Social Realism
-Rom-Com

Analyse how the product techniques used create mening in a media produc you have studies.

Analyse the conceps of 'genre' and 'representation' in a media product you have sudied.

Genre is a critical tool that helps us study texts and audience responses to texts by dividing them into categories based on commn elements.

These common elemens ae called generic covenions/characteristics/elements or tropes.



This scene from X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST shows that the film is a hyrbrid genre: a sci-fi action film.

All genres have sub-genres, for example within the genre with Horror, there are sub-genre's such as Slasher films, Zombie films and psychological horrors.

A very likely sub-genre for X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST is Time Travel, since the whole film relies on the fact that time travel is real.

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