What is genre?
Genre can be described as many things. it can be described as a set of characterstics recognised by audiences which functions like language - offering a set of rules and vocabulary with wich to organise meaning. It is not static. it is constantly renegotiated between audience and industry.
Above is a link to our Music video we completed for media last year. Though the genre is depicted as Thriller, the actual video does also contain different characteristics from genres like Horror. This is because over the past few decades, the thriller genre has been renegotiated to include some classic horror characteristics. Like for example the Quick editing found at 1:09 is an example of a classic type of editing found in the majority of horror movies. Over time this has become an editing technique used in Thrillers to keep the viewers attention. Examples like this help to prove the concept that genre can be renegotiated. Doing this allows a more similar relationship between audience and producer which helps further the risk of financial failure, as (in effect) more than one genre is used.
What is Narrative?
The narrative of a film is the way that the story is told (How meaning is constructed in order to promote audience understanding).
From the opening you can get a glimpse as to what the film is going to be about. The narrative at the start helps to introduce the genre and the underlying story, as well as the overlying story (the underlying story being, the hitman-carer, and overlying being, the schizophrenic's life.), and it identifies these two narratives as being very different stories both merged into one film. If the film didnt have a narrative, it wouldn't be a film.
From the 4 minute film starter there a significant range of narratives have been identified, but none of them have finished. personally this makes me want to see how the rest of the film unfolds, so it would be good to see other audience's reaction given the same introduction.
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