In the seminar this week we talked about genre markers. Various signs, e.g. objects, characters, materials, authenticity, that correspond to a certain film genre. Violence was the theme this week, so that is what we focused on. Violence, is said to be, the depiction of physical acts and there consequences. It’s not always necessarily graphically destructive. For example, in Action Hero Films, there is always an absence of violence portrayed by the hero and he never gets severely hurt as he can always recover. This is an example of a genre marker.
We then all got into groups and Alan gave us four different characters from different genres to design a dagger for; Pantomime Villain, Spy Hero, Cowboy Good Guy and Sci-fi Bandit. My favourite was the Spy Hero...
It had to be disguised, so we decided on the good old pen. It’s small and sly, and something you would expect, yet does the job just as well. It’s shiny and expensive looking.
We also set up a brief outline of a scene, which the dagger could be used in. We thought that the scene would be set in a crowed space, with the spy acting like everybody else, going unnoticed. He would have the pen in his jacket pocket and would slyly get his pen/dagger out and stab a passerby, without attracting any attention. He then slips away without anybody noticing, until it’s too late. The Spy Hero would be long gone.
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