Skip to main content

ALL ABOUT GENRE


In todays media class we learnt about one of the media components in detail ie Genre. 

Genre  is basically a way of categorizing a text through style and form with the help of key elements used in that piece of text called Paradigms. Genre is an important component or else without it the readers will not be able to categorize texts they are reading. Examples of paradigms includes music, font etc  and are categorized into 3 groups.

1) Iconography : the signs and symbols we see and hear.

2) Structure : the way the text is put together in a structure.

3) Theme : the setting and what it deals with.

  • Other things that we learnt about genre was that the general audience selects these magazines on basis of their genres and what suits them.

  • A specific genre of a magazine will be considered to have a high demand because the audience would have been identified as enjoying the text. 

  • Genre's need to be classified differently or else they will be judged on the basis of ''they're all the same'' hence leading to stagnation of the magazine. 

  • Genres keep on evolving and are never stagnant or static and their common characteristics keep changing over time and many of them are CONSTANTLY changing.

"Genre creates expectations that condition our responses. The familiarity of the genre enables each spectator to anticipate and predict what will appear in them. Genre sets up hopes and promises and brings pleasure if these hopes and promises are fulfilled." - Film Studies by Warren Buckland. 

HOWEVER

  • Genre has certain criticisms too for instance creators can be tired of these genres when they want to work outside the box set out for them, although working without a specific genre would make it really difficult and complex for them to understand and choose their media.

  • Nowadays many people in the audience understand media language and how media is made now and so the constricting boundaries of genre can be hard to work around. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY

As far as the distribution of my magazine is concerned, it will be made available in majorly all urban areas that are highly populated. These would be Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, and Multan in particular since statistics and research states that mostly dog owners are found in these urban areas.   I will be selling my magazine's copies at a fair price in the number of 1000. These will be available at big shops and stalls where mostly the upper class, upper middle class, and the middle class people will have their reach. 
Post a Comment
Read more

PREPARATIONS DONE

 Before my shoot, all my preparations needed to be done before hand which included washing my dog, cleaning him up and putting the necessary props in front of him to engage his focus when needed.  I made sure all my pictures in the first shoot as well as in the reshoot had a specific meaning and every pictures conveys a specific story. 
Post a Comment
Read more

SCHEDULE

 I didn't have to plan a complicated detailed schedule for my shoot since the model was available at my house at all times but the most important factor that needed to be considered surely affects my schedule making, i.e. lighting. I usually had classes in the morning and would be back by 3-4pm and till then, broad daylight wouldn't have been present at all for a good shoot. Instead I planned to do it on a weekend when I would start the shoot early.   -Saturday 12th March. 11am- 1pm This was the day and time I initially planned my shoot but unfortunately the weather was unfavorable and it rained too, which led me to having to delay my dates.  -Sunday 13th March I did my shoot on this day on the same timings, I had a broad daylight and the weather worked in my favor too. The shoot was done for the cover page as well as my double spread and content page.  -Thursday 18th March On this day I had to do a reshoot because my previous shoot had some flaws and was definitely ...
Post a Comment
Read more