understanding the requirements of preproduction
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unit 10
Unit 10: fictional film codes and conventions. Horror: birdbox, jigsaw Romance: fault in our stars, 50 first dates For one of my film genres I have chosen to do horror as it is one of the most recognizable and popular genres within the film industry. The horror films I have chosen and the genre its self gives a fantastic opportunity to analyse the codes and conventions that allow film producers to put these films together in an effective way to match the genre. I looked at two quite recently made films, Birdbox (2018) and Unfriended (2015), we can see how the generic conventions, characteristics and codes of the horror film are present. These films help the targeted audience recognize and understand the genre horror and they can interact with anything they see on screen. Steve Neale is a media theorist that thinks genre cinema is made up of repetition and difference. He believes that the target audience would expect familiar scenes to be present within the film base...