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Genres have recognizable characteristics that audiences expect based on past experiences, leading filmmakers to reuse common story elements like stock characters, plots, props, and situations. This helps audiences easily understand the genre and find pleasure in predicting the story. As a result, genres develop conventions around semantic elements like characters and music, and syntactic structures like slowly introducing characters before disrupting equilibrium and building to a climactic ending.
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The document provides definitions and examples of various film theory concepts:
- It defines denotation and connotation for symbols like snakes, flags, and guns.
- It analyzes the denotations and connotations conveyed by posters for films like Warcraft and Batman.
- It examines how film trailers can change the perceived meaning of films like The Shining and Mary Poppins through editing and music choice.
- It lists common stereotypes associated with groups like men, women, social classes, and ages.
- It outlines iconic settings, costumes, and props commonly seen in Western, sci-fi, and fantasy genres.
- It defines linear and non-linear narratives and provides examples of each.Researching genre
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This document summarizes the author's research into conventions of the horror genre for their opening titles project. It discusses common horror elements like stock characters (nerds, jocks), plots (killer stalking victims), locations (forests, asylums), props (axes, cars), sounds (distorted music), and narrative structures (hero on a quest). The author provides examples like the plot of the film Mirrors and explains how genre conventions establish settings, camera work, editing, iconography, and other technical aspects to create fear and suspense for the audience.Genre traits
- 1. Genres have certain characteristics which are easily recognized by an audience. Therefore these are reproduced over and over again. Audiences the start to gain expectations of what a movie will offer and will seek pleasure in figuring out the story. Therefore they use stock characters/plots/props/situations ect. which are easily comprehendible by an audience. Genre Traits
- 2. Semantic This is concerned with conventions of the genre that communicate to the audience such as characters, location, props, music, shooting styles and other signifiers. In horror Locations Props Music Characters •Sorority House •Weapons •Eerie •Helpless girl •Abandoned •Blood •Sudden House/Area •The misunderstood •Candles (highlighting •The Couple •Field critical moments) •The Jock Shooting Styles •The Underdog •Close-Up (show emotions) •Long-Shots (Groups/Show what's happening around) Semantic & Syntactic
- 3. Syntactic This is concerned with the relations between these elements and the structure of narratives in genres. The generic syntactical approach within a horror film is, it starts out slow were equilibrium is undisrupted. The characters are introduced usually in the same scene that disruption will occur. However then something will suddenly happen, this is where editing quickens and the story starts to unfold. However at end there is a rush of action which can be due to an attack or an escape. The narrative may slow down and the story unfolds explaining why such events happened. Semantic & Syntactic