Film Genre

Comic Book Action

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

X-Men First Class

Spiderman

Narrative Conventions
Typical Character: The protagonist starts off as a normal guy until a strange occurrence happens and he discovers that he has super powers. He cannot harvest these powers and he struggles to keep normality. There is always an antagonist that either has super powers too or can create super powers. There also is the lover of the protagonist whom become the mistress in distress.
Typical Setting: It sets in an urban area with many buildings and may civilians. The civilians come into play in a big part as the antagonist uses them as hostages to trick the protagonist into giving up. There is a building where a major fight scene come into play as it is an indoor fight and it causes much destruction.
Typical Dress: the protagonist always has a costume and in every fight scene where he needs to be the hero he is wearing this costume. It can range from tights to regular clothes. These costumes serves as a motif in the plot. The antagonist has a costume too and can be very easily picked out who he is.
Typical Plot: The character wakes up normal and goes on his daily routine. He than will go to a building or local place. He will discover his powers and gets intrigued by them. He meets the antagonist and meets his lover. A fight will ensue and the Protagonist will win but the villain escapes. He can finally control his powers and has a final battle with the main Villain and wins defeating him forever either killing him or sending him to jail.
Typical Situations: The Hero’s lover will be in peril and the Hero has to go save her. This is a trick set up by the villain and the Hero gets in trouble. He fights the villain defeating him and gets some loving from the lover. The two shares an romantic moment and the story ends.

Spoofs

Epic Movie

Super Hero Movie

Disaster Movie

Typical characters: There is a female or male character that is going through a series of random events that are related to different movies. The main character has to find a superpower or a safe zone from the random events happening. There is an evil character that is either related to the main character or is a a famous villain in big movies.
Typical body language: The main character always seems to be out of every situation and isn’t fully mentally capable of doing the simplest tasks. Everybody in the film always seems to be either friendly, hostile or just plain random towards the character.
Typical dress: Everyone is dressed as a normal person except the spoofed movie characters who are dressed as the famous person. The spoofed characters are all dressed differently  to add the emphasis on comedy.
Typical setting: It almost always starts out in a urban city in a house on  a normal day. Later on it goes into the city and when the spoofs start coming in, certain settings represent the spoofed movie.
Typical objects or equipment: There are weapons most likely guns and spoofed weapons like the kung fu panda sword and Indian Jones Whip. They are always related to the spoofed character or the main protagonist.

Creature Feature

Dawn of the Dead

Walking Dead

Resident Evil

Typical situations: The main protagonists are trapped in a room or building or alleyway and there are creatures outside trying to get in and kill them. They are almost out of ammo and time as the creatures coming
Typical characters: There is the main group of protagonists or one main protagonist who are well fitted for survival. They have a keen instinct for the use of a gun and is a natural leader. There are a group of survivors who are either being led by the protagonist or is in a democracy of how they are going to survive.
Typical body language: The main characters tend to have a few arguments on how to survive and they split up onto two groups of leadership. The both groups want to survive and are willing to do anything to survive.
Typical dress: They have normal street clothes on that get torn, dirty and raggedy as the story goes on. When the characters get injured, there clothes get bloody and starts to almost tear apart.
Typical setting: The story starts out in a normal city than creatures start to come into play of life. The building are shiny and clean until the story goes on than everything becomes destroyed by the creatures.
Typical look or style: The director uses quick cuts when it comes to intense action or dramatic scenes. The lighting is usually dull to enhance the drama and horror of the film. There is a flashing light bulb motif that represents that a main action scene is coming into play.

Writing about film

1. What are the 5 kinds of film writing described in the article and what are the key details of each.
2. What does “Annotating a Film Sequence” involve and what are it’s benefits?
3. What does the author imply when she says to “Think Beyond the Frame?”

1. Formal Analysis The formal analysis is when you break down each segment of the film and analyze it to figure out what the whole films mean. It is basically a simple form of analysis that requires the analyzer to figure out which each piece of the film means.
 Film History Every film has a bit of history in it. Whether it is recreating history or creating its own. Films have a large impact on what people think of things and can set certain trends of what is "cool." Most people don't see the films history though. What it takes to make the film and why it was made. Everything has a purpose and all the struggles that ensue the struggling parts makes the film what it us.
 Idealogical papers Every film has a hidden meaning that tells us what to do without us even knowing. These subliminal messages are in films that are only set out to entertain too. 
Cultural Studies All countries have there own set of beliefs and different genres are in demand. A film in Canada might be different than in the U.S. It all depends on how you portray your film to look like and the flow of it.

Discussion of the Auteu The Auteu is what the people who made the film think of it. This gives a critical analysis on the film and shows all the aspects in the film that were wrong even though it came out perfect to us. The maker of the film knows what is wrong and is reliable since he is the one who made it. 

2. While taking notes on a film, you should look at the scenes and critically analyze the techniques used by the editor and director to understand the film. Annotating a film is actually more than notes and by using your film vocabulary to describe each shot so that even if a person with no film history can know what you are talking about.  If you can successfully analyze a film, you open up a new world of thought on how to create and understand film. 

3. When you think beyond the frame, you are looking at and analyzing who made the film and who directed it, wrote it, made the movie "happen." You can't just analyze the film to understand it's themes and "hidden" meanings to the film but you have to figure out all the pieces that led into the film. This gives you a chance to discover what the directors and writers wanted you to see. All directors have different styles and by looking at his directed films you can find out the techniques that were used in making the film. Most people just want to be entertained by the film but by directors use subtle techniques to give a meaning to the film so that other film makers can learn from them.