Horror Genre

GCSE Media Studies: Investigation 1 GENRE

WEEK 1

FOCUS Introduce task Introduce concept of Genre Genre Identifiers Iconography / Aesthetic

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Genre Identifiers Representations (especially gender)

TASKS Work through wiki page on Genre.

RESOURCES Explain task

Buscombeʼs theory

Genre

Iconography

Students find and annotate / analyse a film poster

Genre Identifiers Levels of classification: modes, matrix genre, genre, subgenre.

Work through wiki page on Representation

Representation

Genre Identifiers Narrative

Students break down story according to various theories

(Possibly Ideology also) Write treatment for own horror story. Plot on Freytag diagram.

Representation Semiotic analysis (sign / signifier / signified; possibly Peircean semiotics also)

Identify representations in different genres horror; teen comedy; chick flick (students find and present examples) 3

STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW...

Mulvey / Male Gaze Narrative

Narrative theories some or all of Todorov Barthes, Ellis, LeviStrauss, Freytag, Propp

GCSE Media Studies: Investigation 1 GENRE

WEEK 4

FOCUS The Horror Genre Limitations of genre as critical tool - auteur theory Remind students of actual task; establish deadline; offer alternative (choose-yourown) task to those who want it.

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Watch ʻTwilightʼ

TASKS Watch vampire short from ʻJe tʼaime Parisʼ.

RESOURCES Genre / auteur theory

STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW... Application of all above to horror genre.

Reminder of task Students answer questions based on assessment sentence stems.

Students share ideas (edmodo)

Auteur theory