PR4 Me & My Movies

• Date set: 6/03/14• Submission Date: 3/04/14

Task 1: Presentation

• 1.Choose ONE genre and at least 3 examples of films from that genre. On your slides give the film title, director, year of production and a brief synopsis. (slides 1,2,3,4)

comedy fantasy horror thriller action CrimeSci fi

• 2.Consider what it is that attracts you to your chosen genre.

• Why do you like the genre? List at least three factors, e.g. Stars, story, special effects (slide 5)

Intertextuality

• Is there any intertextuality with other films, of the same genre or other genres?

• Does intertextuality encourage you to watch a film?

Star Theory

• Do you watch a film because of who is in it? What makes you want to see a particular star in a particular role? Do you watch a film due the genre of film that a particular star is known for appearing in?

Frameworks of interpretation:

• 3. Choose 3 film trailers of your chosen genre. Use your genre analysis sheets (as used on Pulp Fiction/Rec/Skyfall) to analyse codes and conventions, narrative setting etc. Add these notes to your slides and illustrate with examples.

• Media literacy: How do you find out about films. Where do you get your information?

• Social networking• Web apps• Blogs• Magazines

• Reception Theory (Stuart Hall):

• How we react to films based upon our age, gender, ethnicity, social class

Active Spectatorship• Active spectatorship theory suggests each viewer

is different and many people in the audience will question the film and react to it in different ways to others, not just blindly accepting the messages.

• Active spectatorship also relates to the idea of

FANDOM where the audience for a particular film adopts it as their own e.g Star Wars

• Active spectatorship also takes into account pre and post viewing experiences, for example the brilliant marketing campaign for Prometheus (Trailers/viral marketing) attracted the film a wide audience, but the film failed to live up to expectations

Task 2

• When your presentation is finished, you use audio recorder and Soundcloud to record your podcast ‘Me & My Movies’ containing all of the information above.