Compendium of Arts & Design: Imaging for Narrative and Storyboards

Task 1: Genre Analysis (Week 1 - 2)

Students are required to select 2 types of genre based on their interest to research on and analyse.

What are Film Genres?

Film genres are used to categorize movies based mostly on plot lines, but also takes style, setting, and characters into consideration. Genres can overlap, and many movies fall into more than one broad category.

Genre is best defined as a set of patterns/forms/styles/structures which transcend individual films and texts, and which supervise both their construction by the film-maker and their reading/viewing by an audience. They are part also of the "frames of recognition" which govern both the institutional production, marketing and distribution of texts, and the selection and consumption of those texts by viewers and readers.

With this in mind I am interested in studying on the following 2 films based on the genre: Adventure

1st Movie Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Released date: 19 December 2001 (USA)

Writers: J.K. Rowling (novel), Steve Kloves (screenplay)

Director: Chris Columbus

Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Richard Harris

Plot Summary:

This is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

My Analysis of the Movie:

This movie is a delight for those of all ages.

This movie is filled a lot of visual effect and animation.

The cast is outstanding, the special effects well presented, everything most believable.

You have young Harry, a mistreated youth who is "Just Harry" to himself. And then, he embarks on a most beautiful adventure to the Hogwarts school.

He meets Ron and Hermione, one an adorable mischief maker, the other a very tense and studious young lady.

Together, the trio try to set things right in the school.

It's the ultimate fantasy for young and old.
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2nd Movie Title:

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Released date: 10 December 2001 (UK)

Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien (novel), Fran Walsh (screenplay)

Director: Peter Jackson

Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom

Plot Summary:

An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign!

My Analysis of the Movie:

This movie is a delight for those of all ages.

This movie is filled a lot of visual effect and animation.

The cast is outstanding, the special effects well presented, everything most believable.

It's the ultimate fantasy for young and old.

Infographic of the 2 Movie genre