What I have found interesting about this week’s studio discussion revolves around what genre really is. Genre can be a mode of categorising texts but it cannot strictly classify one film into one genre. When I came to think of it, films like other medium of literature or text, are like a population or individual within a country. One film can belong to one genre like a person can belong to a certain country while another can incorporate international teachings. Imagine how a student is studying abroad in a different country; learning, implementing and immersing one self into what is taught. There are certain boundaries genre classifications such that countries do. However, those boundaries can be crossed over by films in terms of many different aspects including the production, content as well as reception of that particular film. Just as the colonisation of one nation to another yet.

What we did in the first day of our exploding genre studio is identifying tropes within films. Second, we explore how these tropes are complemented or applied through similar as well as different films across genres. We can see forshadowing tropes within Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho on shots leading up to the stabbing murder scene in the shower. This is where the use of different angles, music, silence and shadows as symbolisms to create intensity and imbalance experienced by audiences across horror films.

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