Draft Genre Page Research

    Genre, Genre, Genre....its all that's been in my head!!! But what is genre? Genre is the structure of ways people will see the world. Genre is the category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. Films that fit in a category makes a genre. Genre has helped me learn about different types films and helped me understand how to categorize them. 

Film is categorize into many types of genres. There's horror, comedy, action, and more. But the important thing is how to analyze the genre in order to categorize films into it. For example, the genre Horror. Horror is classified as a genre that  I had to learn the conventions to properly analyze the genre. Film conventions are used to represent certain topics, characters and events, and more. Conventions in horror are high pitched music, jump scares, and a masked killer. Conventions can help films be easily categorized and analyzed into a genre. Films use many techniques in order to make it feel like that certain genre. For example, in a horror film you'll see many handheld shots and P.O.V shots just to give the film some type of real life affect. An other example is that in action films they like to use a lot of medium or long shots to try and connect the main character to its surrounding. Most of things in film is pretty much analyzed so it can go in its right genre. In romantic comedies I learned that people look at the movie poster to determine if the movie is in that certain genre. Like if there is two men and a lady in the poster with big bright red or pink font letters for the title. It shows that there's a love triangle and this belongs in romantic comedies. In comedy I picked up some pretty important stuff too. I learned that comedies are made to be humorous and give laughter to the audience. I didn't know that there were many types of comedies like sentimental comedy or even classical comedies. In crime I was able to understand that the movie will also involve some type of case or murder. In crime there's a lot of high angle shots and dolly-zooms. SCI-FI was made to show the future technology and how its good or bad. This was interesting to me as I learned in SCI-FI there were a lot of editing being done to make a quality movie. When i learned about the gangster genre i learned that they use these films for people to get a sense of reality. The gangster film is about criminals, gangster, bank robbers, etc. These movies could be causing more harm than good. I learned a lot about genres. 

i worked on the movie genre action and i was able to evaluate a lot about it. Action is a broad genre that shows a story by using fights, weapons, or vehicles. The action genre is a which the protagonist or protagonists are thrust into a series of events that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, rescues and frantic chases. Common tropes of the genre include explosions, car chases, fistfights and shootouts.​ I learned many things about this genre like its conventions or even characters you'll most likely see in a action film. Action was a pretty interesting genre when I was researching about it. 

There are certain conventions we see in action movies. Like when we go watch a action movie. We know there's going to be some type of conflict with weapons, powers, or guns. I learned about certain themes that comes with action films too.  Like for example some themes consist of vengeance, justice, sacrifice, etc. Learning about action was pretty cool though. As i researched i found out what iconography is. Then i found out that action movies uses this technique a lot. Iconography includes the physical features in a film and help the audience to identify a films genre. Action movies is a very diverse genre. One of my personal favorites.                                                                                                                                                          

                  

I learned a lot of things i didn't really take into consideration. I learned that a lot about different genres. I didn't really know much about genres before these past weeks. I used to think like "oh the action genre is just about fighting" but it's deeper than that. Each genre has a certain meaning for it. One might be made to make people laugh and another might be made to scare people. There's more too it. I want to learn more about the different genres and i want to learn how to instantly tell the difference between them. I learned a lot these past few days. 

 

The sources I used were (http://joshsmedia.weebly.com) and I used my classmates Powerpoints and notes for reference material. 

Mise-en-Scene

 At first I thought Mise-en-Scene was just some type of play. Like a scenery by nah  realized that i was deeply wrong. Mise-en-scene the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play. It shows the overall look and feel to though the scene. As we learned I started to understand more and more about Mise-en-scene. 

we took lots of notes about Mise-en-scene. I realized quickly that this was a important topic as I took notes. There two major components to Mise-en-scene. The design and the Composition. The design is the look, props, lighting, and the actors. The composition is the organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of actors and objects. This showed me how Mise-en-scene really affects how we think about the story and characters. I notes that elements in the settings helps show the time and place of the story. When I read mise-en-scene. I learned that i have to focus on the props, characters, set, and lighting. when you analyze media you got to say what you see, like describe what everything looks. Then consider the purpose of the scene. Now try and get into the mind of the producer. Ask questions. Then lastly consider the alternative. 

In Class i had a project where I had to a shot using Mise-en-scene. We had to make a shot using Mise-en-scene. I had fun as i made a scene or setting with toy cars and stuff. My setting was supposed to be a mine cart set by using toy ars and rocks and cotton. By using the lighting I somewhat got what i wanted. 

Mise-en-scene opened my eyes towards how props can be easily used to give some type of meaning. I learned how everything in the set should be questioned. The lighting, props, characters, etc. All of it should be analyzed when you read Mise-en-scene. Mise-en-scene was a interesting topic to learn about.

The evidence I used was my notes, the PowerPoint from Ms. Landis canvas, and more. 

Cinematography

 Now cinematography was a interesting and fun topic to go over. We learned so much about all the different shots and all. It was all just fun. Cinematography is the arrangements of shots and the footage. Cinematography is all the different types of shots that the film makers uses. I personally like cinematography cause it shows how all these shots are different but have a meaning.

There are a lot of shots being taken during a movie. There's long shots, medium shot, handheld shots, and more. By using the glossary format my teacher set up for me. I was able to take nots and categorize all the shots and what there used for . Long shots are wide and shows characters face to bottom showing his place in the setting. Over shots are lookin down. This is used to make the character look small and lack power. Handheld shots is a camera movement when the person is holding the camera. Its used to try and show a sense of reality and anxiety. It gives off a shaky P.O.V but ill get more into this later. 

In class once we learned about cinematography we did a shot project. Where me and my classmates had to take shots of each other. It was pretty fun as I took long shot and close ups. The project was fun and as we went through it. We had to separate the photos and find examples of them. It was pretty cool doing the project though. Since there's a lot of different types of shots it took some time to finish it but we got the job done. 

I learned a lot about cinematography. At first i didn't really think there were so many types of shots. But as i learned i feel like i understand cinematography a lot better now. I really want to know more about camera movement though. 

I used the powerpoint from canvas in the modules for my research. Also my notes.