Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Genre...

GENRE:
  • Genre: means ‘type’ or ‘kind’ – putting something into a category.
  • e.g you can clearly link each of the music artists or films to a specific genre or sub-genre.
  • Stars are often associated with a particular genre.
  • Iconography (familiar objects within a genre)
  • Codes and conventions (what is expected and typical of the genre?)
  • Generic expectations – we take pleasure in predicting the predictable?!
  • Genre offers the audience a structure.

For those of you who are struggling with the idea of genre, this might help...

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