The Dunkirk film trailer I am analysing shows the sub-genre of a period drama this is demonstrated by many known theories surrounding the sub genre being featured in the film. The film plot of Dunkirk surrounds a French beach where 30,000 English soldiers are stranded, in the film we see the soldiers struggling to get home whilst being surrounded by German soldiers. The genre of the film is a period-drama this is due to the film being set in 1940 however the contents of the film being dramatic and tense this ensuring that the film is a period-drama.
The film offers comfortable reassurance to the audience by ensuring they can connote the genre (Barry Keith Grant 1995). The recognisable content can be seen from either the cover or content of the film, this ensures that the audience watching knows what aspects to expect as drama genre films follow predictive patterns and have generic elements easy for the audience to pick out for example we see digetic fighter plane engine noises often throughout the film, this sound allows the audience to associate the film with an older time period whilst connoting danger and threat showing the genre of drama also.
In the film we see visceral pleasures (Rick Altman 1999) created, due to the constant tension in many parts of the film due to it being being a period drama, The gut emotion created by the tense scenes are what attracts the audience this is similar to horror films. An example of a scene that creates visceral pleasure would be where you see a torpedo heading to the boat carrying the protagonist, this tense scene creates anxiousness in the audience. As well as Visceral pleasures however the audience also experiences emotional pleasures such as happiness and sadness, these emotions are created by the outcomes of the actions that would create visceral pleasures for example after the torpedo hits the ship we see many soldiers die this creating the emotional pleasure of sadness for the audience.
Both pleasures are heightened by factors such as sound and editing for example whilst the ship was hit we hear digetic sounds of the soldiers on board and the rushing water this adds to the saddness of the scene as it creates a higher verisimilitude for the audience.
Big media companies and conglomerates like films having clear genres (Branston and Stafford 1999) when advertising the films this is seen when we look at the front cover of we can immediately see the genre this is denoted from the grimaced facial expression of the protagonist, and the sparks of fire shown these connote danger and survival denoting the genre, The clear genre shown sells the film more easily to audiences due to the comfortable reassurance of the film
In the film we see visceral pleasures (Rick Altman 1999) created, due to the constant tension in many parts of the film due to it being being a period drama, The gut emotion created by the tense scenes are what attracts the audience this is similar to horror films. An example of a scene that creates visceral pleasure would be where you see a torpedo heading to the boat carrying the protagonist, this tense scene creates anxiousness in the audience. As well as Visceral pleasures however the audience also experiences emotional pleasures such as happiness and sadness, these emotions are created by the outcomes of the actions that would create visceral pleasures for example after the torpedo hits the ship we see many soldiers die this creating the emotional pleasure of sadness for the audience.Both pleasures are heightened by factors such as sound and editing for example whilst the ship was hit we hear digetic sounds of the soldiers on board and the rushing water this adds to the saddness of the scene as it creates a higher verisimilitude for the audience.
Big media companies and conglomerates like films having clear genres (Branston and Stafford 1999) when advertising the films this is seen when we look at the front cover of we can immediately see the genre this is denoted from the grimaced facial expression of the protagonist, and the sparks of fire shown these connote danger and survival denoting the genre, The clear genre shown sells the film more easily to audiences due to the comfortable reassurance of the film
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