Preliminary Exercise 3 B: Introduction to Genre Conventions Bubble Organizer

       The objective of the post is to apply your understanding of how mise en scene codes and their relationship to the genre conventions of a film. Genre is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment. Genre is important to audiences when viewing a film because depending on what the audience likes and wants to see, the genre will be what they're interested in. Three genre's I'm interested in are fantasy, action/adventure, and comedy. Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. I'm interested in fantasy because I love to see fictional universes and mythology, just things that don't really exist in our world. Action/adventure have quest and discovery, and spectacular scenes of combat, violence and pursuit, action and adventure films are not restricted to any particular historical or geographic setting. I'm interested in action/adventure because I love watching fight scenes and I love adventures because so many things can happen on an adventure. Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. I'm interested in comedy because I love to just laugh and feel happy about a film.

      The media text being created is a movie. It's supposed to engage my audience by leaving them wanting more, wanting to know what happens next. With a partner, you have to create a bubble diagram to illustrate mise en scene codes for one genre. Some of the concepts I learned are compositions and that all the codes and conventions in film are very important. I worked with Sage W. My partner and I did our poster on horror. We looked up what colors, settings, set designs, etc. go into horror films.