In class today Mr. Rivers welcomed us all back from our wonderful snow day by talking more about editing skills, and sharing that we are going to be starting a new film. He then asked if there were any questions regarding our senior paper, which is due Feb. 16, he also reminded us that he is available during lunch, before school, after school for any questions and he is always checking his email. After some questions were answered we moved right into genre lesson. He opened the lesson with a quote from The Great Gatsby, “Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.” The class broke this down to “successful gestures” are what you do, and “unbroken series” is how things come together over time. This relates back to the genre because a genre is an unbroken series; patterns (conventions) that bring it together. Some examples of conventions in a horror genre you typically see/expect low lighting, bad choices made by the characters, scary sounds, etc. Mr. Rivers then gave us the assignment while we are watching Baby Driver to 1. have a thematic focus for example: how do choices in the film’s composition* develop assertions about music** (1 sentence/day). And 2. Identify two other genres that classify this film. This is most certainly an action movie. Identify two other genres that classify this film. Which artistic choices* develop that pattern**? (2-3/genre) (*CAUSE **EFFECT). We then ended the last ten or so minutes of class watching the film and beginning the assignment.
It is important to see what different conventions makeup specific genres because it can develop a better understanding of the film and what the director is trying to portray through certain cause and effect. This also opens up the viewer’s eyes to what makes each genre the same, but also what makes the films within those genres different.
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