Saturday, 10 October 2015

Task 10 - What is genre?


What is Genre?

A genre is a style or category within a medium. Genres are important in the media and film industry as they help people establish the differences between media forms. They also help establish certain expectations and allow the audience to get familiar with the codes and conventions.

Sub-genres are different categories within a genre; more than one genre.

A hybrid genre is two genres combined together to appeal to a variety of different target audiences.

Code and conventions are the things that are stereotypically inspected in films. Codes are used to create meaning and conventions are the things stereotypically used to create these meanings.

Genre tropes are a part of the mise-en-scene that includes signifiers that tell us about the genre. The main genetic signifiers for tropes are: characters, colours, props, location, shot types, lighting etc. These make it easy to identify the genre.


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