Hand in dates!

These are the final hand in dates of my blog production and final production pieces, i have produced this timeline so i can clearly see when a date is becoming close and it will enable me to be prepared for the hand in.

'In Your Dreams' Test Film

Genre Concept Question.

• How useful is the concept of genre in understanding your work?
  genre plays a big part in how we view films, when we read about a film or see a trailer well immediately without knowing being to disciple the text and pick a genre from previous films that we have watched. Horror genre is a particularly good example as when someone describes a film to be of this genre e automatically think about death and horrible things that could happen we even think of previous things we have watched. I think that when i am producing work or researching the work i think about the genre alot comparing shot types, how the actor is dressed and how they will come across to the audience. We chose the genre horror for our foundation portfolio and we immediately began to think of the plot line and what things we associate with the Genre. i believe that if we did not have genre then films would be hard to disciple and you may not understand them as much as you anticipated as certain things you take for granted when watching a specific genre. As Richard Maltby and Ian Craven said ' The success of Hollywood is reliant on the combination of predictable elements with the variation' meaning that we expect things to happen in a certain order so this is what should happen.
  

• How can genre be used to understand music videos and how is this different to genre in films?
  Genre is in everything that we see, music videos only have small differences to that of films. Music videos could possibly be taken in the same category as a short film being that the characters in the video are outlined very quickly and the story has a beginning middle and end very quickly you can understand what happens. Some music videos could be seen as hybrids but when you look at a music video you feel there is a story behind the video and a specific genre can be given to it just like a film.
  

• How is your production conventional of the genre?
  Our foundation portfolio was to produce a film opening of a horror film, i think we stuck to the generic conventions very well but also challenged some conventions to make the opening very exciting and set you up for what the film will contain. We used lots of close ups when bad things where happening so this immediately make you feel scared as you are seeing short flicks flashes of a persons face with blood running down their face and shadows. this follows the generic conventions of horror by getting the audience interested in what is happening. We used very long establishing shots when we produced a running scene so that you can see the actor running and their surrounding, i think this is following the conventions as you get to see how the character is reaction to his/her environment so therefore a connection is made between the audience and character so you automatically feel scared from them.
  

• How is genre useful to you as a produce and useful to the audience?
  I feel that genre is very crucial for a film to contain as when producing a film you think about how you are going to make it follow specific conventions when it comes to shot types, mi's en scene, props, costume, make-up, all the things that are included in a production you are comparing this to a specific genre. An audience only watch a film if they believe that they will be getting something out of it, in my case it would be to feel scared and to feel rush without having to be in physical action this is why genre is very important as an audience judge a film on how well they think it complied with what they believe is the genre so with horror we have to include a killing and a villain if we did not have theses then the audience would not be able to understand what is happening and would be confused on the specific genre.
  

• How could you use the theorists to discuss genre and understanding your production?
  using the theorists backs up the convetions that we have complied with in our production, Rick Altma sttes ' Genre theory presumes that viewers pre read text' this helps us when we procude as we know that viewers will be looking for specific convetions so therefore to comply with what the audience want we will be provising them with something that will make sense and they will understand.
  

• Genres change and evolve, how is your production using/ developing the genre?
  Horror is a classic genre that has been constantly upgraded but also kept very simular. The things that has changed over the years is the technology that is used to produce the film so the CGI and cameras are alot better so therefor we fell that things are more real but when we talk to people who are older and rember horror when it was first eastblished they will have a differet opinion to use but they will still be abl to identify the specific conetions of 'Horror'.