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Analyzing Film Genres: Codes, Conventions, and Trailers

This lesson focuses on understanding the generic codes and conventions across various film genres. Students will name and analyze film posters, exploring visual codes such as narrative, characters, mise-en-scène, iconography, and technical codes. Additionally, students will compare fictional formats with factual formats, looking at the codes used in news broadcasts. They will watch and take notes on specific film trailers, identifying audio and visual techniques employed to establish genre. Homework involves selecting a film trailer to analyze in-depth using the learned criteria.

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Analyzing Film Genres: Codes, Conventions, and Trailers

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  1. What’s today’s focus?

  2. Learning Objective • To understand generic codes and conventions.

  3. How many genres can you name?

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Care and share TED The Avengers The Bourne Legacy The Dark Knight Rises

  8. 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.

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