TASK 1

GENRE ANALYSIS: Refers to the act of categorising artistic, musical or lyrical compositions. Genre observation can be based on the observation that a limited set of genres can fully describe the day to day communication of a social group. eg; In the movie "central intelligence" it is a action-comedy movie and delivers aspects of comedy and action blending in together to entertain the audience.

CONTENT ANALYSIS: A research method for studying documents and communication artifacts which might be texts of various formats,pictures,audio or video. content analysis provides a quantitative description. It involves media texts such as print(newspapers, magazines), television, movies etc. eg. In the movie the first purge 2018, the movie is premised around an annual 12 hour period in which crime - including murder- is legal which makes it suitable of the genre horror-crime film.

NARRATIVE ANALYSIS: Narrative means storytelling. it is the way the different media elements in a story are organised to make a meaningful story. some of these elements include documentary, characters, action etc.

RECEPTION THEORY: A reader response emphasising that each particular readers reception or interpretation in making meaning from a literary text. Also referred to as audience reception.

 FAN STUDY: Field of research focused on media fans and fun cultures.

The narrative of the movie JUMANJI is four high school kids discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game's jungle setting literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. They discover that they have to play the game in order to survive - which means battling brave giant bugs, ill-mannered monkeys and even stampeding rhinos. the main theme of jumanji is a comedy and has sub genres of action, adventure,fantasy and a family film. The content analysis is that the movie takes place in the jungle with the characters behaving and acting different from what they do in their normal lives.