genre

Analyse one of your coursework productions in relations to genre

Genre is there to help to identify media texts in to categories. Lots of genre now have sub-genres, I decided to make a psychological thriller for my AS film opening coursework. As I chose my genre it allowed me to research and find out the nessecary codes and conventions to use to make it look like a typical thriller.

In the opening it needed to be clear that it was a thriller film to do this I followed the necessary codes and conventions conforming to jason mittells theory of them being necessary to be able to categories the film in to a certain genre. As we had to research the many conventions of a thriller we knew we had to include a isolated and dark location where the story started to creating suspense and mystery to the charcters and storyline for it to be convincing.

Steve Neal statement that 'genre is a reptition with an underlying pattern of variations' and that genres have developed over time in to sub-genres can be applied her as the thriller opening is a psychological thriller as it plays with people minds about who is in the right and who is in the wrong although there is a sense of overlapping of other sub-genres such as mystery which are giving to the characters during the opening.

Rick Atlmans theory of the set of pleasures a film can give the audience can definitely be applied to the thriller opening as it would give the audience a intellectual pleasure as at the being it is unclear about who the characters are there motives leaving the audience to make the inital judgement on the charcaters. There will be a sense of emotional pleasure for some of the audience who have experienced being cheated on before as this is the main plot to the story. As well as the viewers being shocked by the initial event of the car crash and the opening sequence giving the audience a visceral pleasure. These will leave the audience with questions of which they will want to carry on watching the film to have the answered.

 Metz' stages of transformation of genres there is experimental stage, classic stage, parody stage and deconstruction stage can be applied to my work as I created this during the point in time when the thriller genre was big within the film industry. But within the upcoming years it is most likly to evolve again and adapt to the next audience demand. So although at the moment my opening would be conisdered to be in the classic stage, in time it will ve considered to may be considered to be a parody of other thriller films around at the time.