Elizabeth Berrios Final Project Blog

  How your relationship with media has started to change during the beginning of this course:     My relationship with media has changed throughout this course by learning how to identify different types of media and what qualities, such as conventions, to categorize them by. I 'm not a huge movie or film person , but this course has piqued my interest in movies, films, and documentaries. This course has also given me a much deeper understanding as to what defines the genres of a movie and what differentiating factors exist between a movie, a documentary, or a documentary or film. That is , in a movie/film sense, this course has also allowed me to identify stereotypes in everyday media we consume that most people overlook. Especially as a wom an, the female stereotypes we see online are so often thrown in our face w e consider it normal , which is not okay whatsoever.     Your relationship with and consumption of media:     As somebody who has...

  Genre conventions are the common elements that help define a genre, such as themes, characters, or plots. Genre conventions are used heavily when making a film to help with choosing which audience type to target (like a younger or mature audience), who to cast in the film (if someone is making an action film, they would want a common star like the Rock), what will make the studio money, and which movie genre to finance. However, some filmmakers will use genre in an alternative way to their advantage (pizza analogy). The genre that interested me the most had to have been fantasy. I find it really intriguing as to how filmmakers are able to portray mythological or folklore stories in a film. I also really like the story formula of a quest and goal and the potential and wide variety of settings, characters, and costumes and designs that can be used in this genre of film. The creativity in this genre is endless, and growing up with the movies I would watch, fantasy would have to be m...