Friday 15 October 2010

Audience Recognition



I will make sure my audience can easily recognise the genre by sticking to current genre conventions. Within the metal/rock genre, these conventions generally are having the band look aggressive or powerful, use of black as a background, the image of the actual band, such as instruments, long hair etc.
Within a music video, these conventions also include low angles, rapid but well timed cuts, close ups of the lead singer(s). Shots of the band jumping around playing energeticly is also a common feature. These common features of the metal genre are a part of Andrew Goodwins theory, that every genre has its own conventions.
The target audience will easily see these conventions and know the genre instantly.

3 comments:

  1. Images? Appropriate terms? e.g. Connotes, Mise en scene, etc.

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  2. I understand you have done some research, made a video - good -and found some theorists. However, the theory is not applied and Andrew Goodwin has not been discussed at all.

    You will need to address these issues straight away, otherwise we will not have any real solid analysis to move ahead with.

    This is level 2 at the moment.

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  3. Amended - you have now included some of the above. However, you have not understood Goodwin here. You will need to develop a more sophisticated understanding of Goodwin in order to engage more fully in the research.

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