ideas for production

When creating a film, producers need to make sure that they are going to appeal to their target audience. Without specifying a genre, a film would be arguably less popular and known about as people that thrive off watching particular genres wouldn't be attracted to a film, where as if i a film was marketed as a Sci-fi you would obviously see and interest from the people that typically enjoy  'sci-fi' movies.

narrative structure is the way the story is told some genres have a typical narrative structure such as in gangsta films i watched two (little caesar and scarface )with a 50 year difference they had the same structure the gangster started with nothing rises to power  and then they fall by the end of the movie the gangster is either dead in prison or in a witness protection program all the things they had have been taken away romantic comedy also have a common narrative structure the two people who end up together at the end are normally not the same who start off together because they may hate each other and forced in a situation where they need to be to thee and over the course of the film be they see that they ant the different and start to like each other and get together or they want to be together but there's an obstacle in the like them liking in different towns or family feuds  or another caritter getting in the way on of thems form a poor background and one weth...

During this time period, there were a significant amount of silence film therefore it relied of visual humour. Comedy films started off with humour such as slapstick and burlesque. Watering The Gardener by the Lumiere Brothers was one of the first comedy films. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd were known as a famous comedic actors during the silent era. Comedy in the form of animated cartoons such as Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Betty Boop became a popular trend during the 1920s  Sounds were introduced into films by W.C Fields, Marx Brothers, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy towards the late 1920s making it possible to include verbal humour in films. Sound was used to deepen well-formed screen characterizations and enhance visual humour. Charlie Chaplin still continued to direct and produce silent films however he added infrequent dialogue and sound effects. Screwball comedies produced by Frank Capra were also introduced during this per...

1890-1930 During the start of this period it was conventional to have a silent a short horror movie, with the first horror film (The Haunted Castle) being only 3 minutes long. Also there were no cuts and the camera did not move. As time progressed films became longer and non-diegetic background sound was added, however it still contained no speaking dialogue and used narration to explain what was happening. It was conventional to have black & white colouring and the only camera shots being mid shots or long/wide shots. Also conventional for the subgenre to be body horror. 1930-1950 At the start of the 1930's speaking dialogue was introduced. It was till conventional for the sub genre to be body horror during the 30's, but the first well-known natural horror was released of King Kong. It was highly conventional to produce films of the horror characters being either a vampire, werewolf or Frankenstein. During the 40's gothic horror begun to become conventional in the pro...

Gangster films often represent an American dream, to be rich, successful, powerful and have respect from the majority of people. Gangster films are a sub genre of American crime films dealing with organized crime, often involving a Mafia. The movie The Black Hand (1906) is said to be the earliest  gangster film. This film consisted of two members from a gang threatening a butcher, but the  butcher was unable to meet their demands, this led to which led to these 2 people kidnapping of his daughter and other tense dangerous confrontations. The film only lasted a duration of 11 minutes. The first gangster film was the Black Hand which was actually a Mob Gangster film. These films often include a lot of crime on the streets and they also include a strong political connection. Control played a very strong role in these films as the people which were 'leaders' were the people which often had a lot of money and this led to them being able to have a huge amount of control over peo...

Roland Barthes  – Cultural, Semantic, Symbolic, Hermeneutic, Proairetic Codes (5 Narrative Codes): “The cultural, or referential code in Star Trek (2009) draws on audience pre-existing understanding of science ‘fact’ while symbolism is created from the tension and character development of Spock and Kirk, placed in opposition to each other. Applying the semantic code there are additional connotations to both characters’ dress code; Spock is clean shaven, immaculately dressed with correct posture and gate while Kirk slumps in his chair, is scruffy on Earth (the bouncer calls him ‘farm boy’) and is not so well turned out. When battle commences the proairetic or action code adds suspense and excitement to the narrative while the hermeneutic code in opposition, limits the audience understanding to create enigma making audiences want to know more”. Goodwin  – Useful for Analysing Music Videos if relevant for MS2 or MS3 internal assessment – 5 key features: “Using Andrew Goodw...

https://revisionworld.com/a2-level-level-revision/media-studies-level-revision/key-media-studies-theorists/genre-theorists David Buckingham – Genre in Constant Process of Negotiation and Change: “Genre must respond to socio-economic and cultural change e.g. Brokeback Mountain has elements of the western (setting, objects and props, dress code) to develop an emotive romance about two men and their love for each other”. Daniel Chandler – Genre is Too Restricting: “Films like Gravity have a limited appeal due to notions of predictability (notions of self sacrifice) even through Cuaron attempted more verisimilitude than other ‘space films’ like Mission to Mars and Apollo 13. A type of genre straightjacket is evident. Henry Jenkins – Genre constantly ‘Breaks Rules’ e.g. evolving hybridization: “Hybridization is now commonplace to maximize audience appeal but also to offer a unique selling point by appearing to break the rules e.g. Submarine is both social...

audience select films based on genre often it because they like that specific grenre also retailers will categorize films by genre certain genres are consider fit for certain ages and genders and so that's how they choose what to see audiences have expectations about the film style and content of films which relate to the grenra which its categorized in this enables us to know what genres we like as some people may only like comedy however hate horrors.