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What’s today’s focus?. Learning Objective. To understand generic codes and conventions. How many genres can you name?. Analyse a film poster. Log on to safari and find a film poster for your given genre. What are the visual codes that establish the genre? Narrative? Characters?
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Learning Objective • To understand generic codes and conventions.
Analyse a film poster • Log on to safari and find a film poster for your given genre. • What are the visual codes that establish the genre? • Narrative? • Characters? • Mise-en-scene? • Iconography? • Technical codes? (Shot types) Copy the poster into Pages or Powerpoint and annotate it.
Fact vs fiction • You’ve looked at fictional formats. What about a factual format? • What are the codes of a News broadcast? • Narrative? • Characters? • Mise-en-scene? • Iconography? • Technical codes? (Shot types) • Charlie Brooker - Visual Language of News
Film Trailers • Each of you will have a specific focus: • Audio codes • Visual codes • Narrative codes • Genre codes for a given film trailer. • Watch the trailer and make notes. Which techniques are used and what are the effects? Trailer for TED Trailer for The Avengers Trailer for The Bourne Legacy Trailer for The Dark Knight Rises
Care and share TED The Avengers The Bourne Legacy The Dark Knight Rises
Homework • Select a film trailer of your choice. Analyse the way genre is established through: • Narrative • Characters • Mise-en-scene • Iconography • Audio codes • Visual codes • Provide screen shots to illustrate your answer.