Genre

In today's session we discussed the genre film theory and different peoples views and opinions on the for or against Genre. First we were asked to write down the iconography of a western movie, we were then  asked to create a poster which had no relevance to any type of genre and let the class try and guess what genre type it would fit in . for our poster we wanted to be as vague as possible by having just the eye. for this 20 minute task I just grabbed an image off of google images and played around with the text and colourisation tools, like curves, RGB and various other tools.

later we were asked to choose from two quotes one being for genre and one against. I decided to go for genre, as i feel that we as a race have to categorise everything, we always form queues we have to order things in a certain way and if we lived in a world without genre not only would it cause a massive headache for everybody but we will find a different way of defining a film i.e the person who directed it and other people that contributed, what type of equipment was used, actors etc. genre is a way for us to look at films in a linear way and depict a target audience for specific genres.