Friday, 14 January 2011

Action Adventure Films - Exam course preparation

Please find the presentation from last lesson.

REMEMBER to make go back over your notes at some time in the near future.



Gcse Aa l1 Genre

NEXT LESSON - MONDAY P4

Key Concepts:

  • Media Forms and Conventions
  • Media Language: visual and aural languages
  • Media Institution 
  • Audience 
  • Media Representations


Media Forms and Conventions
Genre:

  • the importance of genre as a marketing tool
  • the codes and conventions of the genre
  • the sub genres that constitute the genre, leading to a consideration of hybridity


Our tasks may well involve watching clips and deciding on genre and sub genre, explain reasons for choices based on what we see and hear.

We will also begin the case study of how a specific film is marketed through it's genre.