Here is my Superhero Genre study

Similarities:-

• Typical superhero costumes with logos
• Setting is in a large well known city like New York or one that depicts it very similarly
• Epic conflict with lots of fighting
• The superhero’s all have an Achilles heel

Differences:-

• The Joker who is the villain wears bright colours unlike normal dark colours. the colour palette contract many other superhero films
• The villains motivations are different to other villains, the Joker just want to watch the world burn.
• The love interest dies and rejects the superhero.
• Batmans does not act morally right and he echoes the CIA

Similarities to the Fantasy Genre:

• Pans Labyrinth has many of the convectional fantasy characters, like beasts and fairies.
• Another similarity is the setting, as in includes forests and mysterious trees.
• The hero has tasks to complete that show their worth.

Differences to the Fantasy Genre:

• A very noticeable difference is the ending as normally in a fantasy film the ending is happy and the hero kills or defeats the villain, however this is not the case in Pan’s Labyrinth and Ophelia dies.
• Although there are still magical items like the dagger and the tree, they are quite often given a sinister edge.
• The home of the hero is normally very peaceful, however Ophelia home is not and she is very unhappy.

Romance

My genre poster was about romance and the elements that go into a romance film. I found this very easy to draw and it was very recognisable by the class, as the main goal was for the class to guess what genre we had drawn. They guessed romance almost instantly.

We started off just by drawing a heart as all the movies are about love and a heart is a very easy way to depict that. We also drew some popular films that we know of that where romance, such as The Titanic, Cinderella, and Dirty Dancing. Then we started drawing some features that are also associated with romance like:

• Disapproving father
• Love triangle
• Love letters
• Marriage and weddings
• Valentines day

Overall I think our Poster represents the genre romance very well and is is easy to link the two together.