Genre

 Today's media lesson was all about genre's. We learned the anagram DISTINCT which is essentially the blueprints for analyzing genre qualities and media posters such as film posters, etc.

Describe In detail
Setting - location, historical time period
Themes - love, guilt, revenge, good vs evil
Icons - Significant props such as a weapon or a wallet
Narrative - How a story is told, plot
Characters - boy/girl, background
Textual analysis - style of camera, editing, mise en scene and sound

 With DISTINCT we analysed the original Nightmare on Elm Street poster to identify all components that we can take from the poster such as the genre we can take from the poster being set at night which is normally associated with dark themes so we would link that with the horror genre. We identified all the way up to the final point on DISTINCT; Textual analysis which we identified the mise en scene which is essentially everything happening on a scene so it was basically a recap on the rest of our observations.

 Finally, today's lesson consisted of us being split off into groups in which we were with people who we wouldn't normally work with, I was with Reagan who I never really talked to until today. We were tasked with 2 random genre's and we were told to go take pictures that are related with these genre's, me and Reagan ended up getting the genre's: Horror and Comedy which was a challenge in itself because brainstorming ideas was not our strong suit.

 With horror we asked to borrow a knife from a food tech room and after scaring a couple of year 7's, we were off to create a scene. We ended up in the car park behind the Design Technology rooms, to use the knife to hold it against the car window and pretend to be sneaking up on the 'person' inside.

With comedy we were stumped until we came across some poms poms on a table and decided we would act stupid and go for some slapstick comedy, I say 'we' acted stupid but I was the one being moronic and getting a little bit too excited with the pom poms. The picture taken was me behind a tree jumping out behind it equipped with pom poms in both hands almost like a cheer leader shouting in joy.