Film Studies Introduction to Unit 25: Film Studies Aims of Unit 25: • Understand how films are created for specific audiences. • Understand how films make meaning for those audiences. • Exploration of industry practices and the application of a range of theoretical approaches. • Inform and enhance your production activity.
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Film StudiesIntroduction to Unit 25: Film Studies
Aims of Unit 25:
• Understand how films are created for specific audiences.
• Understand how films make meaning for those audiences.
• Exploration of industry practices and the application of a range of theoretical approaches.
• Inform and enhance your production activity.
Learning Outcomes
LO1: Be able to apply different analytical approaches to films.
LO2: Understand the relationship between films and theirproduction contexts.
LO3: Understand the relationship between producers andaudiences.
LO4: Understand the relationship between audiences and films.
Assessment Criteria
1.1: Apply approaches to analysing films with some appropriate use of subject terminology.
1.2: Describe the relationship between films and theirproduction contexts with some appropriate use of subject terminology.
1.3: describe the relationship between producers and film audiences with some appropriate use of subject terminology
1.4: Describe the relationship between audiences and films with some appropriate use of subject terminology.
Unit Success
To succeed in this unit you need to:
• Watch a lot of films!
• Be an active viewer, not a passive film viewer.
• Understand film as a powerful medium.
• Be analytical.
• Know that several different theories can be used on one film.
Genre Theory
• ‘Genre’ literally means ‘type’.
• Genre helps us catergorise films.
Task:
• Look at the following trailers and consider which genre they belong.
• Make notes as to why you think it belongs to a specific genre.
• Find an image to accompany your horror film synopsis.
Arguments against genre
• Clear, identifiable and sustainable boundaries?
• Sub-genres?
• Hybrid genres?
• Created by critics, not filmmakers?
• ‘Ultimately, perhaps we need to remember that the concept of genre is a little like stereotyping. Once you start investigating real people in all their complexity, stereotypes tend to fall apart; similarly, once you start analysing a complex media text, generic labels become fairly meaningless.’ – Media Magazine