Here are some examples to help show how to write about genre conventions. Their taken from a science fiction course I taught in January 2011.
Unit 2 / Genre Conventions - Visual Projects
Science Fiction: My Own Favorite "Genre"
Science Fiction Tropes
This quick blog post tells about some of the main patterns we see in science fiction - you may need a few blog posts like this to describe the genre you've chosen for your own project.
"Hard" vs "Soft" SF
Genres are not set in stone - even a single topical genre like science fiction has dozens of sub-genres. And for your project, you may find a need to differentiate sub-genres in order to define where your work exists in relation to others.
Monsters Movie
As a blog post, there isn't very much here of my own work - I provided the links to a movie trailer and an interview with Gareth Edwards, the director of Monsters. From a blogging perspective, I want you to avoid this approach - simply linking to works by other artists doesn't allow much room for understanding how those works apply to your own project. From a visual perspective, though, you may want to create something that looks very similar. You could create a movie trailer as your project, and then video a kind of "director's interview" as your description of what you did and how you did it.
Also, I highly recommend watching the Gareth Edwards interview - he gives some great anecdotes on the relationship between the production of a movie and the "real world" that's always going on during the filming.
Science Fiction Tropes
This quick blog post tells about some of the main patterns we see in science fiction - you may need a few blog posts like this to describe the genre you've chosen for your own project.
"Hard" vs "Soft" SF
Genres are not set in stone - even a single topical genre like science fiction has dozens of sub-genres. And for your project, you may find a need to differentiate sub-genres in order to define where your work exists in relation to others.
Monsters Movie
As a blog post, there isn't very much here of my own work - I provided the links to a movie trailer and an interview with Gareth Edwards, the director of Monsters. From a blogging perspective, I want you to avoid this approach - simply linking to works by other artists doesn't allow much room for understanding how those works apply to your own project. From a visual perspective, though, you may want to create something that looks very similar. You could create a movie trailer as your project, and then video a kind of "director's interview" as your description of what you did and how you did it.
Also, I highly recommend watching the Gareth Edwards interview - he gives some great anecdotes on the relationship between the production of a movie and the "real world" that's always going on during the filming.
Unit 2 / Genre Conventions - Visual Projects
Introduction to Fiction and Poetry
Poetry - Fiction - Essays
12Writing Home
Introduction to Fiction and Poetry
Poetry - Fiction - Essays
12Writing Home
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