Final Task - Genre Research Blog: Science Fiction





 * Common camera angles in your genre (CAMS) camera angles, movement, shots

- Tracking

- High Angles

- Two-Shot

- Medium-Long Shot


* Common Mis-En-Scene in your genre (CLAMPS) Mis-En-scene

- Costumes (Large and Bulky)

- Props (Animatronics)

- Make-up (Change Skin Color)

- Setting/Sets (Space-Station)


* Common Editing in your genre

- Jump Cuts

- Fade In/Outs

- Shot Reverse Shot


* Common sound in your genre

- Lightsaber Ignition 

- TIE Fighter Engine Scream

- Tardis Materialization Whoosh

- Dialogue


* 

- 1 High Life

- 2 The Creator

- 3 The Abyss

- 4 57 Seconds

- 5 Star Wars


* Genre provides a slight insight into how Earth would be if something happened or existed. It's a nice escape for those in the real world.


* Genre is completely dependent on world-building. If the world-building doesn't work out then the movie in the genre completely falls apart and becomes just another movie.

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