Genre theory classwork

In one lesson we looked at genre and how they are linked together in a certain way. E.g. comedy-horror would be Scary Movie.
















In this lesson I learned a lot of things about genre that I never knew before. It made me realise there are lot more genre's than I knew already, which were the more generic ones, and learning that genres are actually connected making it a hybrid-genre.

Neo Noir

We looked at the idea of Neo Noir and how they are used in certain films/programmes. Neo Noir is the idea that a film used aspects and key conventions that would be used in an original film noir film.

We looked at three examples which use this, Red Riding Trilogy, Mulholland Drive and Blade Runner.

Red Riding Trilogy 

 Conventional
-dark colours
-guns
-smoking
-following the idea of starting from the end
-crime
-main character is a journalist
-narrative
-rain

Unconventional

-child abduction

-living area is rural

-the year of 1970's

-unconventional music at the start

-sepia glow

-set in Yorkshire

-features family

Mulholland Drive

 Conventional
-swing music
-gun
-smoke/mist
-1940's setting
-red lipstick
-typical femme fatale
-men in suits with guns
-American

Unconventional

-bright colours
-happy feel to the sequence at the start

Blade Runner

Conventional
-fog
-silhouette
-smoking
-dark colours
-gun
-urban setting
-set up of opening scene
-shadows
-american setting
-raining
-crime

Unconventional
-set in the future
-futuristic machines
-flying cars
-sci-fi
-multi-racial
-doesn't follow starting with the end idea
-electric music

Audience terms

Active - Does get involved with the film.

Passive - This is where the audience are not getting involved or engaged with the product.

Traditional - the audience will go see the film and buy the dvd afterwards, they would never buy a blue ray disc.

Hedonist - these audience members are drawn into different types of films. They may go see a film just out the blue because they feel like it.

Post-modernist - This is groundbreaking films. Films that can be streamed at home via Netflix or lovefilm.com at home, via a mobile or through the tv.

Difference between storyboards and animatics

A storyboard is a series of rough sketches which show the moments of how a film would work. The different camera angles and dialog.

 Here you can see someone has made a storyboard for 'Your Song' from the movie 'Moulin Rouge'. This shows the way that the director wants it to be shot. This is seen as a rough idea which could be changed .
































"The Quest" - an animatic from Callie Booth on Vimeo.



An animatic is a animated storyboard which shows the different shots but in an animated format. This is an animatic from Vimeo called 'The Quest'.