Wednesday, 17 December 2008

Genre-Type

Codes-
• Stuff

Conventions-how you use the codes
• What often happens
• Not plot

Horror

Sub genre
  • Zombies
  • Vampires
  • Psycos
  • Werewolves
  • Clowns
  • Posessed Children and dolls
Codes
• Blood
• Pretty Girls
• Knives/axes
• Remote house
• Masks
• Dark/Iron/Mist
• Cemetery
• Rubbish cars
• Something Creaky
• Music

SCI-FI linked with horror and fanstasy

Survivor good woman
Bad male= killer
SEX=DEATH

Tripping over things
suspense
  • Music
  • Lighting
  • Editing

Normal situation gone bad

Vampire/Zombie-Someone good gets ‘turned’/ killed
Childhood Trauma

Themes
Sci-fi
-xenophobia-fear of the other
-technophobia

Reservoir Dogs

This film has all the codes of a crime but the convenstions of a western

Codes
  • Automatics
  • Urban
  • Comtempary
  • Suits
  • Show down
Conventions
  • Stand off
  • Shoot out


Alien

Horror
-monster
-blood
-remote place
-dark/rainy
-claustrophobic
-music
-cat
-hunted down one by one

Sci
-spaceship
-alien
-in space
-gadgets
-robots
-technology
-morality(dying horribly)
-technophobia
-sex

Themes

Fear of the unknown
Being attacked by the other
Mortality(dying horribly)

Vagina Dentatia –vagina with teeth

Titanic

Romatic drama
historical
Sci-fi done by sci-fi director

DMD

Genre-formal-website
Css
Flash
Images-Photographic
-Vector pixel geometric
-CGI
Moving Image
-live action, found footage
-animation
Content
Style-minimal

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