Genre Analysis: The Teen Vampire Drama
We discussed the different cinematic and narrative elements of Twilight and The Vampire Diaries. We looked at the things like character, setting, and mood and we examined how these things helped to appeal to the audience and helped to serve the purpose of the genre. For instance, the purpose of the teen vampire drama is to entertain its audience by selling them a thrilling fantasy about love. The love interest of both of these videos is very attractive because who has fantasies about falling in love with someone unattractive? We talked about how Bella from Twilight is depicted as the average girl because it makes it easy for the audience to place themselves in her shoes and imagine that something as thrilling as falling madly in love with a gorgeous vampire is happening to them.
When making notes in your reading journal the first thing you want to establish is who is the audience of the piece I'm reading or viewing and what is the piece's purpose. After establishing this you should examine all the piece's components and pay particular attention to those things that help them appeal to their audience and help them achieve their purpose.
Genre Analysis: Comics
We discussed some of the common elements of in V for Vendetta, Sin City, and Ghost World. Unfortunately, it was pretty clear that the majority of the class had not done the reading. Despite this we were able to point out some important elements of comics such as the ways in which they indicate narration, character speech, and information from electronic sources. In V for Vendetta we looked at the relationship between what we were reading in the text and what we were seeing in the images. What we were seeing in the images directly contradicted what we were reading in the radio broadcast to show that we were entering a world where the government appears to be using propaganda to support it's unfair treatment of its people and to ignore the plight of the nation. We also looked at the way the sizes of frames can affect how we view the action and help emphasize bits of the story the author feels is important. We also looked at how color played a part in each piece. The most important thing you all should remember from the discussion is the fact that even though all 3 pieces were in the same genre, they had 3 different audiences and therefore had to use different elements to appeal to that audience. Some of you may be doing more general genres than the teen vampire drama which means that you may have varying audiences, purposes, and rhetorical techniques. You want to make sure you note this in your journals and talk about it in your how to presentations. We will talk more about your presentations on Monday.
Homework
You will be transforming your fairytales either into a one page teen vampire drama or a one page 4 to 5 frame comic.
I will also be sending you comments on your choices of genre for this project. If your genre is approved, you should get to work reading and viewing examples of your genre.
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