What is genre?
"Genre is no longer a fixed set of elements"
Buckingham (1990) argues that genre is a "Constant process of negotiation and chamge."
Many different genres are now combined these days into hybrid genres. They barnch off from the traditional.
Genre-Codes and conevntions that enable audiences to sort texts into groups. It is also what is expected by the audience.
Punk-Developed in 1976. Emerged from proggresive rock. It is pretty much a "DIY" genre. Rebelling against authority lyricaly.
Loud, distorted, simple, no emphisis on one single area.
Targets teens and young adults
Why is the conecpt of genre attractive/useful to an audeince?
-Suggestions of bands of a similar genre
-you know what to expect
-Fulfils audience expectations
-predictable
-"shorthand" way of communicating with the audience.
-allows quick set up of characters/plot
-needs to be a "twist" to avoide cliche/boredom
-mixes familiar and unfamiliar
Pop conventions
-camerawork-Close ups of face-acting as a product-lots of pans and movement-zooms from faces to dancing.
-Editing- cuts in time with music-effect and filters-lighting exposure-saturated colours-quick paced-CGI
-Mise-en-scene-setting-grand and luxerious settings-elaborate/exotic-costume-elaborate costumes-lighting is usualy high key-props-phallic symbols-sexualised-glamorous-actors are ideas of perfection.
performance/narrative-abstract, mianlyjust singing and dancing-intigrated between performance and narrative-over the top-disjuncture without artistic meaning
Sam - you are still missing a lot of posts and the material that you have is of a basic standard = D / E; you need to complete all the posts to a more detailed standard and also use a wider range of presentational devices - just text is not enough.
ReplyDeleteEnsure you have posts on inspirations, lyric and song analysis.
currently I am having a few issues with uploading some of my work but I am slowly doing it when available. I am also going to try include a prezi soon but creating one at school is rather difficult and I am also having troubles at home doing it too.
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