In this seminar we looked at what genre is and how it relate to film and animation. We looked at the contrasts and similarities between film and animation. The seminar also discussed whether genre is useful or whether its detrimental. I found the seminar very interesting because I'd never thought about the deeper context of genre and whether its necessary in film.
The seminar was I felt concluded fairly quickly that animation relates very directly to film genre and that animation is just a different artistic choice but is still virtually the same story telling technique.
Reflecting on the seminar I left feeling differently towards genre than at the start. There were arguments for and against genre but its short falls were most highlighted for me. I feel genre is a great way to define a film its needed to inform people whom already have predetermined ideas of what they'd like to watch that what you've created will be right for them. It can however in the same way create negative prejudice about a film using brief genres as labels. Sci-fi for instance is an incredibly broad genre however many people will only associate it with star trek fans and therefore instantly be deterred from it. It can work the other way around as well, if people expect certain tropes in a genre writers and directors may feel forced to conform to them. This categorisation of film has the potential to all lobotomise the creativity of it.
Genre is however can be very subjective. Whether a certain film belongs to a genre because it shows some characteristics or possibly a singular key characteristic may cause some to believe that films belongs to said genre and others may think otherwise.
I think genre is an good and necessary tool much like it is for the music industry however it should be looked at in a less black and white way. The only way genre can work successfully is by being seen as loose terms. I am still unsure whether its genre that has dictated film making or the other way round but taking genre terms too seriously will not rectify the problem
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