Key Words Codes and conventions Gothic Gothic Features Using your homework think about the different features of gothic genre Discuss the features of gothic genre in pairs Share your features with the class ID: 628962
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Gothic Animation:Genre
To understand and apply the codes and conventions of gothic genre
Key
Words
Codes and conventions
GothicSlide2
Gothic Features
Using your homework, think about the different features of gothic genre Discuss the features of gothic genre in pairs
Share your features with the classSlide3
Gothic Features
Wild and remote placesDark and gloomy settingsFamily curses and dark secretsSupernatural powersSecret passages NightmaresHeroes and heroines in dangerWicked tyrants and witches
Spooky effects with ghosts Dual worlds
How many features can you spot in the opening minutes of
Van
Helsing
? Slide4
Binary OppositesA man called
Claude Levi-Strauss said that narratives contain binary opposites.Good versus evilHero versus villainCan you name any more?Slide5
Using these pictures, explain what you think nature meansSlide6
The Opposite of Nature?
What would the opposite of nature be like?Discuss your ideas with the rest of your table.Slide7
What do these photos tell you about the ‘other’ world?Slide8
Gothic Genre & Opposites
The gothic genre has always contained opposites. One famous example is in Jekyll and HydeDoes the film Coraline contain opposites? Can you name any?Slide9
To which genre does the following image belong?
How do you know?Slide10
Mise-en-scene
The following factors help us understand what genre is:
Setting
Props
Hair/make-up
Facial expression
Body language
Colour
Lighting
Together these factors form part of
mise
-
en
-scene
. Slide11
Low-Key Lighting
Horror films tend to be filmed using
low-key lighting
to build a
macabre, scary and mysterious
atmosphere Slide12
High-Key Lighting
Whereas romantic films tend to be filmed using
high-key lighting to build a happy, safe and calm atmosphere Slide13
Lighting
Which of these shots is filmed in
high-key lighting
and which is filmed in
l
ow-key lighting
?
Shot A
Shot BSlide14
Lighting
Which of these shots is filmed in
high-key lighting
and which is filmed in l
ow-key lighting
?
Shot A
Shot B
High-key lighting
Low-key lighting
REMEMBER – Lighting does not always depend on the time of day the scene occurs
but is about the
mood and atmosphere
the director wants to create
e.g. – Shot A and B are filmed at night but create opposite moodsSlide15
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