Film Studies homework for the 17th

Task 1

Analytical Approaches to film

Genre analysis:

Genre is a term in French that means type. It's the term used to define the various types of media texts in post modernism and carries over to various media texts. There are also sub genres as well. Genres also give general indications to what audiences will expect in a movie or media text, for example the use of mis-en-scene. Like Star Wars has a genre of Sci-Fi. There are also Hybrid genres which is a movie that is made up of two or more genres and can be a mix to shape a completely new genre. An example of a Hybrid movie would be Logan as it has both the aspects of superheroes and also western factors alike. 

Content analysis:

Content is the term used in Media to describe the amount of things the audience as a whole can take in and in arts and can be expressed in different ways through various media texts. An example can be a film conveying a morale and meaning to the audience for them to learn from something. An example,  Fast and Furious has the main message that friends are important

Narrative analysis:

The term narrative in media  is another term for "storytelling" and is also used to define how a story or a plot flows in a Media text. For example A movie used is how Indiana Jones follows an Adventure type of narrative and also narratives also get audiences to expect what should come next in a movie.

Task 2

Reception study: Reception studies in media is the term mainly used to "survey" the ways in which audiences take in information from mass media. For example, how audiences take in information through a film.

Fan study: It's the name typically given to the method of research that specifically researchers find out  what fans want and also what makes them content with a form of media. An example would be institutes taking fan reviews and critiques so that they make the next iteration of the movie more suited to what fans are demanding, such as a character or certain soundtrack to be implemented in the next movie. Consumers normally use this method to raise their views from their fan base and also making it so that, the fans are happy overall.

Task 3

The film I have chosen is one of my most favourite films, I have chosen the Mission Impossible series  . The main Genre for the movie is Spy and the sub genre is action making it an spy action film  . I know this because It incorporates mis-en-scene and gives audiences what they want. For example audiences expect things like cars, action and chase sequences. Furthermore the use of props such as guns and explosives give away to the audience that the movie is of the genre. In terms of the content that is used with in the movie, it is mainly aimed to entertain an audience rather than educate or teach the audience something new. For audiences they can consider this type of content to be 'engaging'. Narrative wise the story follows the same formula in which a spy action film will follow, big agencies and the main character trying to bring in the bad guy who usually comes across as at first trust worthy but soon isn't, this soon hooks in the audience and also gives off the factors of "enigma codes" which are clues and questions the audience will have to figure out on there own. These sorts of things will hook in the audience as well. Things like the use of direct speech will make the consumer feel as if they are in the shoes of the character on screen.