Monday, 27 March 2017

Genre Conventions

L/O: Explore Genre codes and Conventions.
Monday 27th March 2017


Chick-Flick

Genre Conventions:

  1. Colour scheme-Pink
  2.  Cliques
  3. Teenagers
  4. Relationships
  5. Stereotypes
  6. School

Directors:

  1. Jason Moore- Pitch Perfect
  2. viestars
  3. Christian Ditter- Love Rosie


Chick Flick movie stars:

  1. Amanda Seyfried
  2. Jennifer Aniston


3 Blockbuster films:

  1. Pitch Perfect
  2. Mama Mia
  3. Legally Blonde




Set in a school. Typical cliques with the singing groups. Main girl falls in love with boy. 
Main girl loves pink, rich teenager. Goes to school to be with boy. Falls in love with boy. 
Teenage girl getting married, wants to find her dad. Close to her mum.




















Films teenagers would prefer:
  1. Mean Girls
  2. Pitch Perfect
  3. Love Rosie
Five things to make genre popular:
  1. Cliques
  2.  Main Girl and Boy
  3. Teenagers
  4. Pop Musc
  5. Drama
Social Issue Related film:

Love Rosie is about a girl called Rosie who gets pregnant when she's 18 but the dad leaves her so she has to bring up the child on her own as he thinks they're too young. He returns about five years later wanting to be with her again.
 
Recipe for a Chick Flick trailer:

Ingredients:
  • A Pretty Teenage Girl
  • A Fit Boy of the same age or older
  • Setting like a school
  • Cliques with Stereotypes
  • Something Pink
Method:
  1. Enrol the teenage girl into a new school.
  2. Get her to meet the populars who introduce her to the cliques
  3. Meet the Fit boy of the school
  4. They get together
  5. Problem solved


































Thursday, 23 March 2017

Film Genre

L/O: To Explore the concept of Film genre.  23/03/03

Film Genres:

  • Horror
  • Comedy
  • Romance
  • Chick flick
  • Thriller
  • Sci-f
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Mystery
  • Crime
  • Documentary
  • Animation
  • Family
  • War
  • Musical
  • Fantasy
  • Teen
  • Western


Hybrid is the combination to two genres, e.g. Rom-Com.

Sub genre is a way of classifying types of film within a genre. For example the horror genre is so big, it has lots of sub genres.

Horror films:

  • Lights out
  • Annabelle
  • Paranormal activity
  • Friend request
  • Clown
  • Chucky
  • The exorcist
  • Pshyco
  • The reef
Sub Genres- Supernatural, gore, zombies.

Genre: Chick Flick:
  • Mean Girls
  • The Duff
  • The fault in our stars
  • Clueless
  • Legally blonde
  • Pitch Perfect
  • The hot chick
  • Mama mia
  • Bride wars 
  • Chalet girls
  • Love wrecked
  • Uptown girls
  • Love Rosie
  • What to expect when you're expecting
Sub genres of chick flick-
Rom Com
Drama
Family

Conventions of horror:
Creepy music
Low key lighting
Colour scheme (Red Black etc)
Special effects
Repetition of certain words
Victim-female usually

BBC School Report 2017

Click here for link to final report.