Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Codes and Conventions of film genres

Codes and Conventions

Action
  • Fights involving weapons such as guns and knives
  • Set in a big/modern city such as London or New York
  • Multiple deaths including that one really liked character
  • Futuristic vehicles and big explosions
  • Cat and mouse chases
  • Villains and Heroes
Comedy
  • It's dependent on the type of comedy but usually set in generic places; bright, well populated towns and cities. 
  • The camera tends to be very naturalistic, medium shots are used generally throughout to present dialogue and facial expressions. 
  • There are many stereotypes, especially if teen comedy and set in a high school. You usually have the dumb person, the smart person and the socially awkward. 
  • Sound is so important with comedy films as the dialogue needs to be extremely clear for it to be funny. 
  • Three significant types of comedy; slapstick, dark humour and wit/wordplay. 
Horror
  • Urban environments - dark streets/ narrow alleyways and empty houses
  • Often dark colours such as red and black to represent darkness, evil and blood etc
  • Common mise en scene objects include masks, weapons and religious icons etc
  • Lighting is expressive and non-nauralistic, where low-key lighting is used to create dark shadows.
  • Always, a hero, a final girl or a villain- most commonly being a man. The hero would most likely have a mission to accomplish ideally to defeat an evil villain. 

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