GBHSAS

Genre Task

In class we were given the term DISTINCT and told to analyse four film trailers based on it. We were also taught about hybrid genres which is where genres overlap. An example of this is romantic comedy films.

The trailers we had to analyse included:

Oculus
The Guest
The Vow
Guardians Of The Galaxy

This is the Oculus trailer, instantly we notice this is a horror film as we can see this from the setting of the film which is in a dark house, the time is set at night which is normally to do with horror films. The characters are also looking very scared.

This film trailer The Guest looks like a 'hybrid genre' as it combines action and thriller, the music creates a sense of action and thriller genre, the main character is portrayed as mysterious which makes us think it has thriller.

This film trailer is The vow which instantly makes me think it is a romantic film, the light which is used as sunshine makes us think of happiness and shows love felt between the two characters.

This film looks like a hybrid genre as it combines Sci Fi and Comedy, the props which are used are high tech gadgets which make it obvious that this is Sci Fi and the element of humour can suggest this is hybrid

Semiotics

This is the promotional poster for the Hunger Games, I will be applying Semiotics to this poster to analyse the denotation and the connotation of this poster.

The denotation from looking at this is that the red mocking jay in the middle is on fire which may present anger or hatrid however it also has a golden glow which may symbolize majesty as the girl in the centre of the poster is looking up on the fire bird image it may show that this image is higher and is looking down on everyone,.

Looking at both sides of the image I constantly see images of a female which is in the middle on the left and the same on the right for a boy and the same pattern is used on both sides of the poster so this may show teamwork however they are so far away from eachother on the picture it may show that they may dislike eachother or compete against eachother, the fact it is in a pattern shows how this picture is suppose to show perfection. The low key lighting around the edges which is used to represent the beacon of light at the top and the high key lighting which is emitted from the middle below the fire bird at the top may present an entrance which the female in the centre is looking at.

The connotation from this image shows how the 2 characters in the posters on the left and right may work together or be competing against eachother, the boy on the right has more of a serious face compaired to the female who is almost looking stunned at something upwards. The arrow which is shooting through the bird may represent some type of war or anger from the bird or may represent peace for others.

Film Pitch Presentation

The lost ones from tomgbhs

This is my presentation which I worked on in groups, we made a presentation about the film we created which is called The Lost Ones, we gave the presentation on this and we also got feedback from people
Summary
Overall people thought that this presentation was very intruiging and we got an overall score of around 70/100 people gave us the best marks based on the narrative and how it was suitable for the target audience and will attract customers. The area which seems we need to improve on was how the narrative fit the genre. The conventions needed to be in place as well.

Hybrid Genres

Hybrid Genres is the title today because we learnt about the mixture of genres which form a hybrid genre, we made a spider diagram of different types of genres which is below:

Genres -

Anime

Sci-Fi

Comedy

Western

Thriller

Musical

Fantasy

Romance

Horror

Superhero

Action

We had to describe in detail the following

- Setting - locations, time of day or night, interior / exterior

- Themes, Good vs Evil, Love, Revenge / Justice

- Icons and Props, Significant objects

- Narrative Story and Plot

- Characters, age, gender and class

- Texual analysis

- Sound, editing, camera

Mise en scene

5 Elements -

Facial Expression + Body language
Lighting + Colour
Positioning of characters / objects within frame

Low Key lighting - Created by using only the key + back light
Sharp Contrasts

High Key lighting
- More filler lights

Iconography

We looked at several films to see if we could work out the effect on the audience and looked at several Mise en Scene features such as settings + Props, Costume, hair and makeup, Facial Expression, ligting colour and positioning of characters within the frame.

Element of Mise en Scene

Mise en scene

Essentially it is information in front of the camera for the audience to help them to work out what is going on.

5 Elements-

Setting + Props

Costume, hair and makeup

Genre Task

We were given a genre picture task in which we took pictures to show a certain genre. The genre this image was suppose to show was Comedy like a hangover from a party and he is now feeling sick in the toilet.