FS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hand-Colouring Of Photographs, Kinescope, Divergent Series
Document Summary
Film genre: a body of lms that have common codes & conversations. Sub genre: traditional gourpings within a genre (ex: comedy: slapstick, romace, gross out) Cycle: a speci c period of popularity of a genre. for example: the hunger games and divergent series is a cycle of youth oriented dystopian non ction. A blue print: this is the main idea. A structure: these are the speci cs (chrachters, names, places, ect. ) Label: this is the branding a studio gives their lm. Contract: this is the unspoken agreement between the viewers (us) and the studio that they are going to deliver what has been promised. Conventions each genre has its own recognizable elements examples of conventions : Motifs (the great gatsby"s green light; symbolism of hope) Iconography (visual elements we associate with the genre) Representation: presents a person in a speci c way.
