Genre Questions

1. What genre does your production fit into, is it clearly does? It may fall between 2 or more (explain why)
Our production fits into a typical romance- fairytale type genre. It will be quite clear this is the genre whilst watching the music video as the narrative shows a couple together, splitting and then the ‘happily ever after’ ending. This type of storyline tends to be conventional to R and B videos and just music videos in general seem to follow this kind of story.

2. Of this genre, what conventions have you followed, which have not included and which have changed. Explain why you have made these choices in terms of both creating meaning and their effect of the audience.
We’ve included long shots, to set the scene and focus on a specific character, and mid/close ups to show emotions, this should help the audience follow the plot of the music video better and may also mean they engage with the narrative and the feelings of the character.
We chose to shoot the majority of the music video in a house as 'Love the way you lie part 1' is set mainly in a house and because we’re shooting a video to the song 'Love the way you lie part  2' we decided to follow this theme as we are keeping a similar narrative to that story almost as it follows on.

3. Audience- to what extent does genre provide a comfort blanket for the audience, or does it use genre to unsettle them.
Yes- we have tried to follow on from love the way you lie part 1 original music video and so there will be an expectation that part 2 will follow on in some way and we have made our video so part 2 is the woman’s view of part 1, as this is how we’ve interpreted the lyrics as it’s mainly a woman singing about her feelings in the second one that we’re making a video for.

4. How important do you consider an understanding of genre to be to a preferred reading of your text? Suggest an aberrant or optional reading might occur, if an audience member had no prior knowledge of the genre.
The black and white parts of our music video may cause confusion as some readers may not grasp the concept we are trying to create which is a dream scene, but also could be interpreted as a memory, although this also would fit with the narrative so an aberrant meaning could still fit.
The lyrics are from the female’s point of view, and so the majority o the camera work is focused on female and her feelings.