Task 2: Research into Existing products.

In recent lessons we have been analysing and looking at different types of programmes and films and how they are addressed to the audience. We have been doing textual analysis' of the opening scenes of different genres of films.

Textual analysis' consist of:

- Types of Shots
- Camera Angles
- Editing; Visible & Invisible
- Sound & Audio; Diagetic (sound which is expected to be heard) & Non Diagetic (sound which is expected to be heard)
- Misé en Scene.

Genres

The 3 genre's we have been looking at for Media are Romance, Horror and Thrillers.

The film genre that I have chosen to work on is ________. Horror and Thrillers are very similar and can be confusing about which one is which. They both have the impact of giving the same vibe of scaring the audience.

Horror

With horror movies, they make the viewers have fear and involves story lines like death and criminal lines etc. and makes stories which are very strange and alarming. At the beginning of the film, they have to make you really scared and terrified so they have to add scary music to make you shake abit. This category of films also make the audience suspicious as to what is going to happen next. The setting of the films are most likely to be in creepy places, making it a traditional horror film with the atmosphere being really spooky. They are set out to frighten the audience and make them creeped out by the film, whether the story is real or not. The story has to be catchy and attention-grabbing in order to grab the audiences eye straight away. They have to include quite a lot of Non-Diagetic sounds to make the reader jump out and get shocked. The font used for the credits are often with blood dripping down them or having sharp-looking fonts.

Some horror films are:

- Day of the dead

- The grudge

- Scream

Thrillers

Thrillers have sub-genres i.e

- Conspiracy thriller

- Crime thriller

- Action thriller

- Disaster thriller

- Drama thriller

Thriller films are the type to thrill the audience. They have a high level of suspense and nerve-wracking tension in them too. They are both similar and different to horror movies. They both have non diagetic sound at the beginning of the movie to attach the audience to the movie and make them interested. Thrillers are differentiated from horror films as their story lines aren't the same. They have a lot of mysteries or impossible escape missions. These kinds of films have some kind of suspense in the story to keep the reader interested in the film and often have a rather suspicious ending - going onto a sequal or having a twist at the end. Thrillers include characters having conflicts with one another - the good and the bad. The font for the credits used in thrillers are just like the ones used in horrors, to give that affect to the audience of it being a scary film.

Some thrillers are:

- What lies beneath

- Hannibal

- Blade

Romantic Comedies

In romantic comedies, the setting is set to be really cheerful and bright. There is some non diagetic music as a jolly, happy tone of sound. The setting can be set at different places for this kind of film and doesn't have to be based in one environment i.e. A city or a park, etc. The usual storyline for ROM-COM's are 'Boy meets Girl' which ends up with them falling in love and having a happy ending but also have a part in the middle where they fall out, and then re-unite. Most of the opening scenes show where they are going to meet. The moods of these films are always more to the brighter side of things like making the audience laugh and trying to amuse them. The credits used in this are mostly with a font being bold and big. With having the font like this, it shows that it is going to be a rom-com and not a thriller or horror.

Some romantic comedies are:

- Pretty woman

- Valentines day

- Over her dead body