genre

Question 1

GUARDIANS - superhero genre

Answer 1

• extraordinary powers, equipment and skills (talking animals, space ships, weapons)
• moral code e.g. groots sacrifice
• backstory e.g. coming from earth / being thanos’s daughter
• motif e.g. starlords music

Question 2

GUARDIANS: science fiction genre

Answer 2

• special effects e.g. lasers, characters etc
• setting - an alternative timeline, unfamiliar placed within the familiar e.g. outer space
• narrative elements - new scientific elements, tech, politics, conflict between good and evil
• symbolism - futuristic props, costume and setting
• film techniques - close ups of new tech / science

Question 3

PRIDE: social realist genre

Answer 3

• characters: the WC, poor and marginalised e.g. gay people
• issues: unemployment, protest, alienation - protesting for rights
• settings: council estates, factories, ‘northern industrial towns’ - small welsh towns, WC london
• technical style: documentary techniques
• actuality footage: opening has some actual footage of miners strikes

Question 4

PRIDE: ealing comedy genre

Answer 4

• poke fun at authority: ‘little person versus the big’
• element of social satire e.g. actual social figures held up to ridicule
• comedy techniques: mismatches and absurdity (slapstick) e.g. costume: loud, vibrant, layered, androgynous (no hierarchy) gays vs traditional, regimented, feminine, beige, hierarchal welsh clothing /// setting of kitchen - domestic shot compared to loud gay crew. camera keeps them both in separate shots - lots of cuts