Genre

• Other languages
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• GCSE

Key Category Research 

1: Genre

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to understand fully research and wrote your own Key Category research section of your assignment. 

Genre: A Reminder!

Describe what you discovered during your research into Categories and explain how this influenced your plans. (5 marks) ​

To complete this task you need to: ​

- Describe the research activity you undertook, e.g. watching similar films​

- Describe one aspect that you found out about the categories for your film, i.e. purpose, tone, genre, etc.​

-Explain what impact this will have on your creation of the film and why. ​

Repeat the above process for a further aspect.

01:47

What genre conventions do the two trailers have in common?

00:19

List the genre conventions you have noticed so far.

01:07

What genre convention(s) is being used here?

02:59

Add any final genre conventions you spotted.

02:31

What about this?

In conclusion...

Identify common conventions across your chosen genre that you can include in your opening scene. 

Consider why you want to include that convention

Consider how you could realistically shoot that convention 

For additional credit, consider the effect of across subgenre conventions - THEY ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT!

Writing about conventions

You have to do three things for each convention. 

(COPY THESE DOWN!)

1) State the convention 

2) State where you found this convention (this can be done in the same sentence) 

3) State how you are going to show this convention on screen (this is the tricky bit!) 

Example of Part 1 and 2

During my research, I identified that one key convention of the Fantasy genre is a close up of the main hero character in an action pose with a weapon. This was present in the trailers for Damsel and Snow White and the Huntsman. 

NOW WRITE YOUR OWN 

These are the opening shots of each trailer. What shot is being used? 

Considering the genre, why do you think it is important? 

1. Once _____________ home if she doesn't pass the exam.Edvin would have gone to the beach if the weather _____________ fine. If you were in London, you _____________ much more English than now.She _____________ happier if she had won the lottery.

would be

had been

won't go

will say

would use