Research: Genre

This Is My Research: Genre for my Comp 1

Django Unchained (2012)

Produced by: A Band Apart Columbia Pictures

Distributed by: The Weinstein Company

Genre/Sub genre: Western/Revenge Movie

What Sub genre does it conform to?

   Django unchained conforms to crime movies because it portrays crimes being committed by criminals unlawfully. In addition to racism which by genre theory first thought of by Steve Neil the use of racist terms and old timey themes makes it distinct enough to garner it's own audience but similar enough to be in a genre.

What conventions does it subvert?

   it subverts the typical western movie by portraying the era in a very unsavory manner with all the slavery and blood shed and distasteful aspects, as in heavy violence. The hero of the story is not a cowboy doing cowboy things. This movie also subverts the typical hero role while Django receives assistance from Dr. King Schultz, the film ultimately emphasizes Django's agency and growth, subverting the typical savior narrative by positioning him as the primary force driving his own liberation. Traditionally, Westerns often excluded Black characters, typically portraying them in subservient roles. Django Unchained flips this by centering a Black protagonist, Django who seeks liberation and revenge against white oppressors.

 

What representation are there?

   Representations include but not limited too African American, American, German, slaves and Colonel Sanders (aka Big Daddy)

What technical elements are used to give meaning to the representation?

   There was this one scene in the movie where the 2 main characters traveled to a plantation to retrieve one of the slaves and when they arrived the owner of the place Spencer Gordon Bennet or Big Daddy as he is referred too in the movie is talking to the protagonists on a balcony and the camera angles were high angle and low angle for Gordon and Dr king Schultz respectively implying that the owner of the plantation has a lot of power in this here land and the protagonists are under his rules.

Goodfellas (1990)

Produces by: Warner Bros. Pictures

Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre/Sub genre: Crime/Drama

What Sub genre does it conform to?

    Goodfellas Conforms to the subgenre of Crime/Drama movies which in this video portrays them wearing typical mafia ensue outfits while driving a typical vehicle of the era and movie because in Steve Neil's theory a media text must be similar enough to be set within a genre while also be different enough to get people to watch it. 

What conventions does it subvert?

    Goodfellas subverts the run of the mill crime movie which in this video portrays at first the main characters on a ride down a dark highway and you probably think "oh they're a bunch of goodfellas" but then a weird sound comes from the trunk and they pull over to see what's up then a suspenseful scene of them building up the courage to open the trunk then suddenly a bloody man wrapped in a sort of tarp is reviled successfully subverting the audience's expectations and making them think "woah these aren't very goodfellas" and the plot of the movie is also uncommon being a normal person rising up the ranks of the mafia and the trials and tribulations that come with it, in Steve Neil's Theory  Genre theory a film must be distinct enough to give people a reason to watch it while also similar enough to be within a set genre.

What representation are there?

    Representation in this movie goes as expected an American mobster and Italian mobsters to name a few

What technical elements are used to give meaning to the representation?

    During the scene where the Goodfellas opened the trunk of their car and saw that their victim is still alive the camera angle gets a high medium angle shot on him making the audience subconsciously say that that man is weak and a not a threat and I mean look at him he's basically dead and it there for shows that our characters is in power in that scenario.

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The Godfather (1972)

Target audience and how are the appealed too?

The target audience is gonna be people who like these kind of movies, or a more mature audience with this opening scene it has a lot of people talking making it more grounded and the lack of music in this scene would really exemplify the importance of the dialogue. 

What would you like to use in your opening scene from this?

My team mate Arnold which is the Creative Director has explicitly stated that he would want to implement similar dialogue to that from The Godfather since is it vary similar to what he envision the final product of the opening scene would be  

What would you like to avoid in your opening from this?

We would like to avoid plagiarism and copying the opening scene of the Godfather too much to avoid this we would shoot in a more dark unformal setting like a storage place or the back of a building.

Bad Boys: Ride or die (2024)

Target audience and how are the appealed too?

The target audience based on this scene is for people who like action comedy movies "are those dogs fresh?" this line from the movie tells the audience that the character would like to eat a dog, but that's not right? what he actually means that are those hotdogs fresh the audience yet does not know why he said it in this manner, to save time? to be cool? to ask for a dog with relish and mustard on it? we may never know.

What would you like to use in your opening scene from this?

My group would like to use the robber attempting to rob this convenance store with a lot more dialogue and a lot less "are those dogs fresh" we are not gonna use fresh dogs instead we are gonna use a lot more guns and guns doing gun things.

What would you like to avoid in your opening from this?

I have a deep suspicion in side myself that my team would be heavily apposed to add the line "are those dogs fresh" into our final opening scene as we intend on the opening scene to be more dramatic, thematic and cinematic and other words that end in matic.

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Target audience and how are the appealed too?

The target audience for this scene of Reservoir Dogs fits quite well with our intended target audience as well, as we are intending to have a more serious tone with more grounded characters as portrayed in this scene provided. 

What would you like to use in your opening scene from this?

Our Creative Director Arnold was adamant about adding a scene where a person from a rival family would be captured and their captures would try to goin info from him and I think it would be a good idea since it is vary reminiscent of actual mafia crime movies.

What would you like to avoid in your opening from this?

From this opening scene we would like to not involve any violence on screen since Cambridge

really does not like that and likes to regulate creativity this can be seen as an allegory to real life where big business snuffs our any creativity and soul our of anything. another thing we would not like to add to our video is that the title Reservoir Dogs does not have any dogs in this scene despite the title and there is no "are those dogs fresh" line in the Reservoir Dogs movie.

Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 8 (1992)

Target audience and how are the appealed too?

The target audience is probably older folk that can handle this sort of violence shown on screen 

This video introduced me to the 6 ways that movie opening scenes could be created and my group decided to pick 

This part was the part I dreaded since it was a lot of thinking and writing and critical thinking and analysis but in the end I think I did pretty well even though I didn't finish it I feel really satisfied and proud with what I wrote for Goodfellas (1990) please re read it to see why