Film Genre

6 December

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drama, action-adventure, fantasy, sci-fi, comedy, horror, rom-com, romance, thriller, documentary, crime, western, musical, animation, social realism, biopic, period drama, 

L.O. To explore the concept of film genre

a style especially in the arts that involves a particular set of characteristics.

Hybrid = mixture of two or more genres.

sub-grenre = categories that a genre can be divided into

Romance

love actually, bridget jones, mamma mia, dirty dancing, love rosie, beauty and the beast, grease, about time, 

sub-genres: comedy, musical, drama, christmas

romance genre conventions- happy ending, two protagonists/ main characters, extreme highs and lows, red+white colour palette, sometimes struggle to make a relationship work, usually a boy and a girl fall in love, red/white title, usually two people (the people who fall in love) on romantic poster, 

Examples of famous romance film directors could be Christian Ditter, Richard Curtis, Nancy Meyers - they have directed films such as love actually, the holiday, love rosie, about time, how to be single and more. 

Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Colin Firth, Sandra Bullok, Lily Collins, Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd are all associated with the romance genre after starring in many romantic films.

                   

All of these film posers all follow a lot of the romance genre conventions, such as: 

red/ white title, both protagonists/ people that fall in love on the cover, colour palette of red and white, boy and girl.


13 December

L.O. to implement genre codes and conventions

Genre conventions

casual outfits, slow + calm music, montages of the two people that are in love/ falling in love, usually competition or a problem they have to overcome, lots of highs and lows, nice/ romantic settings and locations, lots of emotion, conventionally attractive main characters, a lot of them are hybrids to other genres

Recipe for a romance film 

Ingredients: 

attracrive girl and boy, lots of tension, soft + romantic music, a dilemma/ argument/ disagreement to overcome, montages, lots of highs and lows, casual costumes, nice or romantic settings. 

Method:

1. Put the boy and girl into a romantic situation/ setting together and add tension that will later lead to curiosity and feelings. 2. they slowly start to become familiar with eachother, usually a montage of their feelings growing for one another/ them getting together. 3. they are faced with a disagreement, usually another person or an event happens triggering an argument. 4. both protagonists are sad and realise they actually want eachother back .5. they make up and there is a happy ending. 

Recipe for romance film trailer

Ingredients:

montages, romantic music, usually nice settings or locations, boy & girl, lots of close ups/ extreme close ups

Method: 

1. open with one of the main characters and a bit about their life. 2. bring in the other protagonist and indicate they are a potential love interest. 3. montage of them speaking to eachother and getting to know eachother. 4. they are together and happy, lots of audio of them speaking over a montage. 5. show drama and any arguments they have, adding dramatic music to for dramatic impact/ adding curiosity. 

Film Trailers

In this film is about four very different teenagers who aren't friends but all get stuck in a video game together. They have to complete a series of levels to get out of the jungle they are stuck in. The genre for this film is comedy/action, well represented in the trailer with a lot of dramatic scenes, emphasised with dramatic music and joke scenes included. In this film, there is lots of obstacles for the four characters to overcome while they are stuck in the jungle and various different locations, before they can go home, making it an exciting, frustrating, funny watch. They have made it an entising trailer by featuring these highs and lows of the film.


This is the main protagonist, Spencer Gilpin/Dr Smolder Bravestone. In the video game, he is stuck in the body of Dr Bravestone who is ironically the complete opposite of him in real life. In real life he is a skinny, pale, awkward teenage boy but in the video game he is stuck as a strong, masculine, brave man. 





recipe for a film like jumanji: 

ingredients: a broken video game, four diverse teenagers, 
















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