Jason Sherman's Final Project Blog

 Genre conventions are the story line characters the theme basic features of a given genre things used to identify the genres for example stars. All these can help us as the viewers depict what the genre is. This can also help outline a film during the filmmaking process, this is because for things like a horror movie you as the director want to make sure you don’t deviate to far from the genre and audience you are trying to appeal to. I am most interested in learning the horror conventions just because I feel that they are such a staple to movie making in general. For the future and my later project I am going to look into key conventions that are most recognizable to a genre to make sure that my point gets across.

 After watching the trailer for "She's All That" I began to pick up on a potential issue with the gender representation present. It immediately began with centering the male a stereotypical high school male. Giving him somewhat of a normal introduction about his characteristics. However when introducing characters such as the ex girlfriend the film only spoke on her looks. I don't exactly think that it is a proper or real world best way to represent groups of people. However you must understand that those qualities are what make it into the movie that it is. It should be taken for entertainment purposes as it adds a flare to the plot line. Sure, you could better integrate it but not without altering the films story. I do feel that the films should have limitations for what they can produce under the aspects of representation however I also feel much can be justified as adding to the plot line. I did see the film change course throughout the timeline. As the dorky new ...