Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
A Beginner’s Guide to Film Genres
Film Distributors' Association
This course developed a deeper understanding of how generic films relate to specific audiences. Based on their own experiences of film viewing, learners explored the reasons why generic films are so attractive to audiences as well as why writers and film makers so often produce generic stories. Learners explored a variety of genres, looking at the origins of specific genres, understanding how we recognise genres and how each genre offers different expectations of the stories they told.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Andy Leyshon
Chief Executive Officer
Film Distributors' Association
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Evaluate the concept of genre, not only in film but across a wide range of art forms and in everyday life.
- Identify the ways in which genres operate from both a narrative and also thematic perspective.
- Describe the visual conventions of specific genres.
- Assess the constraints and advantages of generic films for both audiences and the film industry.
- Discuss different theoretical approaches to genre.
- Explore the ways in which the film industry uses the idea of genre in both the production and also the marketing of films.
- Reflect on the ways in which genres develop and change over time.
Syllabus
- The idea of genre
- How we recognise a genre film
- Conventions and codes of a genre film
- How genres develop over time
- Why the idea of genre is important for film audiences
- Why the idea of genre is important to the film industry
- How do we approach films which do not seem to fit into any particular genre?
- A study of four specific genres - superhero, thriller, sci-fi and horror.
Issued on 21st October 2022
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