International Baccalaureate
Distance Learning Week 3 Intro Video. Watch and make note on content and task: Let’s do some close analysis of select sequences from our two set texts. You will be allocated two sequences to analyse, one from each film. TASK DETAILS Your job is to explore the representation of the vampire monsters at these moments… Read more Representation of a Vampire
The Super Hero Film We have explored the princess archetype in Pan’s Labyrinth now we are going to explore another archetype, the (Super) Hero. We are going to analyse the genre and the narrative. We are also going to try and understand how the social, political, historical contexts echo and resonate in that film. First off,… Read more Superhero Movie – A Study of Genre
Terms to Learn Corpus, Theme, Iconography, Generic, Stock Characters The Fantasy Genre In this lesson we are going to complete a genre analysis of Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) del Toro Sound easy? Well it is! Genre analysis is done in three steps. 1 Define the corpus. That is, agree on a group of films that you… Read more Genre Analysis of Pan’s Labyrinth
Terms to Learn Genre Cycle, Hybrid… What? Genre, a problem…? You may be thinking that, ‘If films follow the same generic blueprint (repertoire of elements), why aren’t all genre films exactly the same? Genre films tend to change, tend to evolve. In fact some theorists suggest that genre follow cycles: they are born, become popular,… Read more The Problem with Genre
Terms to Learn Generic Conventions, Repertoire of Elements Genre is like a cake… When you make a cake you follow a recipe, in films the recipe is called the repertoire of elements. Most cakes use the same basic ingredients, same as in a genre film, these same ingredients are called generic conventions. ‘Genre is similarity… Read more Genre Part 1