Genre
Genre - type of film, audience to categorise by - often becomes deficient and contradictory
on a deeper level it is useful to think how particular narrative structures work within genres of animation
Does animation allow for more/worse violence? - Audience is children even though it;s violent - should be calmed down?
Genre change? Audience change? Does animation make genre crossing easier?
Applying genres - constricting?
Subverting genre?
So much exaggeration - Tom + Jerry
Udnerlighting - shadows. Obvs hero/villain
Parody concept of Jekyll + Hyde
Repetition to emphasise what'll happen
---> Audience = children
Voiceovers for horror?
Some ideas for an older audience presented in child form, or for multiple audiences. Mr Peeler's Butterflies ---> terrifying
Does animation have more limitation with horror? Is it as effective (look at SNK - some of that is terrifying!)
Generic plots;
- Maturation (coming of age/rites of passage)
- Redemption (transition of main - bad to good)
- Punitive (Main char, behave bad + is punished)
- Testing (Willpower vs temptation)
- Education (main char - neg to positive view of world)
- Disillusionment (reverse of education)
Definition of Genre
Discrete categories or types of film defined by visual, technical, thematic or subject orientated consistencies
- A set of codes & conventions which determine particular expectations & outcomes in the narrative
Paul Well's Seven Genres of Animation Films
formal, deconstructive, political, abstract, re-narration, paradigmatic, primal
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