Paranorman

Pananorman

Introduction

There are many genre that found in the movie. Genre have different kind of characteristic that known and recognized by the audience while watching on a certain movie. There are different types of genre. For example, comedy, horror, sci-fiction, action, crime, musical, epics, drama and etc. There are two different kind approach on it, the first one is semantic approach and the second one is syntactic approach. Semantic approach is a conventions genre that communicate to the audience in ways of characters, locations, props, music, and angle of shooting. Characters means actors that act out the whole film and there are many character roles to play as in a film. Locations is venue that be filmed in the movie as follow the storyline and the basis of the story. Props that used in different genre will be needed in different props. For example horror will be need blood, scary venues and etc. 

In addition, music is the background of the film and etc. For example, horror film will need those scary sound to support on it to make the whole film more different to make the audiences feel more impactful on it while watching the film. Next, the costume on it also, different costumes might be used in different generation or different genre. For example, comedy film actor might wear as in a funny way to attract people’s attraction. Besides, syntactic approach is the relations between elements and the structure of narratives in genres. The different between the two approach are syntactic is like bringing a kind of meanings in different genre that audience will get it through the meaning. For instance, romance genre, audience will expect it is a love story between the protagonist and antagonist. Horror, they will expect it is scary and horrible just like the movie, “The Conjuring 2”.

Body

This “Paranorman” movie is talking about a young boy, Norman Babcock that he can sees dead people in his real life. He always talks to spirits with a friend, Neil. He do see his late grandmother and other ghosts on at everywhere he go. Besides, Norman’s uncle also able to see the ghosts and tell Norman that the witch and her ancient curse. His uncle tells him of the ritual that he must take up his responsibility to protect the town from a curse that cast by a witch in many centuries ago. At last, he get to find the grave and solve the curse from the witch to rescue the people in the town.

Now I want to discuss about the theory that related to the genre in this movie. There are few genre that we can found in this movie. Firstly is comedy. Comedy is a genre of film that make audience in humour and laugh. It makes them laugh and release their stress after they watched it. The first comedy point that we can found in the movie is the way that Norman’s sister talked with the muscle guy. The second comedy point that we can found is when Norman’s dad ask Norman that whether is it his mother, Norman’s grandmother is sitting beside his father and his father very awkward and face to the air and said mother. There are many of the laughing part in the movie. Besides that, it is an animation genre that is a cartoon that make by different kind of images and motion graphics. It different compare to the others movie, because movie normally shoot by a production but this kind of cartoon is made through using 3D graphics design on it.

The third genre that we can get in this movie is horror, there are some horror part in the movie to scare the audience and make them a lesson. For example, the horror part that can be found while the zombie walk towards Norman them and the witch horror the people in the city. The fourth one can be found is action genre on how the Norman fight with the witch in the last part of the movie, Norman fight with the witch to protect the people in the town. The last genre that can be found is melodrama. Melodrama means the emotional and overdramatic that can be found in the movie. For some part, is too over reacted by the people in the town and Norman to make audiences feel too sensational towards the movie. There are still have many genres that we can be found on it beside of this few genre. For instance, fantasy, thriller, and family film can be found in the movie too.

The mise-en-scene of this movie is didn’t much special compare towards those real movie film. The camera angle in this movie is adjust through the software depends on the creator of this movie. The composition and the camera angle all is adjusted by the software through online editing. But there are still many mise-en-scene that can be found in the movie. Mise-en-scene enclose and contributes a lot in the film. Mise-en-scene includes many different field of things, for example the setting, lighting, costumes, space, staging and acting. Setting creates a sense of place and mood to reflect the character’s emotional state of mind. In the part, the setting for the library during night actually creates a cold feel and scarcer feel in the movie. Lighting included three-point lighting, high key lighting and low key lighting to create an illumination of the scene in the film. Besides that, costume is the most aspect in the mise-en-scene part. Costume include both makeup wardrobe to conduct a character’s personality and status on the movie itself. Other than that, the space of the movie too. There are many types of spaces that use in a movie. For instance, there are deep space, shallow space, off-screen space and frontality.

Conclusion

In a conclusion, Paranorman is a 3D motion graphics movie. It is a funny and horror genre movie that makes people laugh on it. Besides, it is a good movie to teach us some lesson on it. We can few lesson on the movie itself that brought by the character.