Preliminary Exercise 3B: Introduction to Genre Conventions Bubble Organizer

   Now that I know what mise en scene is, I would be doing a bubble diagram. The objective of this assignment was to apply my understanding of how mise en scene codes and their relationship to the genre conversations of a film. Genre in film are categories that use narrative or stylistic components to define films. This is very important to the audience because it helps to determine the characters, plot, setting, and tone. The three genres that I am interested in are horror, comedy, and romance. Horror is intended to scare its audience by having some sort of physical violence or psychological terror. Comedy is intended to make its audience laugh. It’s mostly used to amuse or entertain its audience by exaggerating the situation in a humorous way. Romance is when there is a love story between characters. I am interested in these genres because it gives me a lot of room to work in. 

   The media text that I created was a poster. I try to add some cool designs to attract my audience. The goal of this assignment was to create a bubble diagram to illustrate mise en codes for a specific genre. This was to describe how the codes of mise en scene comes together to create a meaning or the audience. Me and my partner picked the genre horror, which was a great help for us since we are planning to do a horror movie. We were able to focus on each element of mise en scene, making it easier for us to analyze mis en scene in a media text. We learned how specific colors demonstrate danger, for example red being one of them. We also learned our strengths and weaknesses. For example, my partner focuses more on the research. While I like to focus on the design. This is how we split up the project. Overall, the project was a great help to focus on each concept of mise en scene, but also getting to know my teammates.