Conventions of Genres

Western Conventions

Setting – desert -This is Indexical because conventionally when people think of films set in a desert they automatically think of the western sub genre however this can also be symbolic with other elements of the film.

Director - John Ford - This is iconic because when western films were made in the early 1900’s stars and directors were synonymous to a certain sub-genre. However now they are freelance so can be in any hybrid movie.

Costumes

Men –white collared shirt, black, brown, or grey buttoned up waist coats, cowboy hats, long trousers and cowboy boots.

Women – long 1910 era dresses, long gloves, shawl, and bonnets.

- This is all symbolic to a western sub genre as when all these signs are put together this is what it signifies. However if there was only one of these things it could be confused with another genre.

Science - Fiction 

In the 1930's there was Flash Gordon and Buck Roger.

Then in 1940 world war 2 started and so the iron certain was set up by Russia in 46, to protect its ideology and communist threat .

Not only that but technology was advancing as bombs and missiles where becoming more common, and comic books like Batman began where good defeats evil.

1950 and Sci-Fi really became popular because of the growing belief of life on other planets therefore societies were having constant threats of invasions from both Russia and the aliens, After that nuclear bombs were broad casted which meant a new invisible threat to civilians of radiation.

However time moved on and people got bored of sci-fi as the new audience was into the next big thing the teenage Rock n Roll era.

Setting - space, spaceship, back in time e.g. Starwars,

music -  non digetic - digital, adventurous, zooming from the rockets / spaceships

Props /costumes - computers astronaut suits

Then the creature from the Black lagoon was made