Dazed and Confused.

(A reflection of Film and Audio) What is genre and how does music fit into a films genre?

We probably all have a general idea of what 'genre' means. But like many concepts in media, seemingly simple ideas can be convoluted and complex in practice.

Consider these questions:

Are the genres in music the same as genres in film? What about games?

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time. Genre is most popularly known as a category of literature, music, or other . The basic genres of film can be regarded as drama, in the feature film and most cartoons, and documentary.jump to Video game genres - Genres in video games are somewhat different from other forms of art .You have an opponent with the same abilities as you, more or less, To win, the players must match the rhythm of the music by pushing the play button and Not to be confused with the stage musical or musical film,

What is genre for? Is it just for sales, or does it have meaning for media producers?

Consumers can make choices about media texts they wish to consume and media ... If a media producer wants to gain an audience for a particular genre, then . All genres contain sub genres which further define and categorise the media text.

What are your favourite genres? What are the conventions or distinctive characteristics of those genres?

What is the definition of a genre?

Noun. genre film (countable and uncountable, plural genre films) (countable) A film that was produced with the intent of fitting into a specific genre (such as science fiction, romantic comedy, horror, or film noir) with an existing audience.(Referenced from wikipedia 1993 )

What is the definition of music genre ?

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. It is to be distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably. Recently academics have argued that categorising music by genre is inaccurate and outdated. The movie i I have chosen to access is called Dazed and Confused it was written by Richard Linklater in 1993 and the genre is comedy.

Dazed and Confused is a 1993 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The film features a large ensemble cast of actors who would later become stars, including Jason London, Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich, Cole Hauser, Parker Posey, Adam Goldberg, Joey Lauren Adams, Matthew McConaughey, Nicky Katt, and Rory Cochrane. The plot follows various groups of Texas teenagers during the last day of school in 1976.The film grossed less than $8 million at the U.S. box office. In 2002, Quentin Tarantino listed it as the 10th best film of all time in a Sight and Sound poll. It ranked third on Entertainment Weekly magazine's list of the 50 Best High School Movies. The magazine also ranked it 10th on their "Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years"

(The title of the film is derived from Led Zeppelin's version of the song of the same name. Linklater approached the surviving members of Led Zeppelin for permission to use their song "Rock and Roll" in the film, but while Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones agreed, Robert Plant refused.)

Plot :

It's May 28, 1976, the last day of school at Lee High School in the suburbs of Austin, Texas. The next year's group of seniors are preparing for the annual hazing of incoming freshmen. Randall "Pink" Floyd, the school's star football player, is asked to sign a pledge promising not to take drugs during the summer or do anything that would "jeopardize the goal of a championship season". When classes end, the incoming freshman boys are hunted down by the seniors and paddled.

The incoming freshman girls are also hazed; they are rounded up in the school parking lot by senior girls, covered in mustard, ketchup, flour and raw eggs and forced to propose to senior boys.

Freshman Mitch Kramer escapes the initial hazing with his best friend Carl Burnett but is later cornered after a baseball game and violently paddled. Fred O'Bannion, a senior participating in the hazing tradition for a second year after failing to graduate, delights in punishing Mitch. Pink gives the injured Mitch a ride home and offers to take him cruising with friends that night. Plans for the evening are ruined when Kevin Pickford's parents discover his intention to host a keg party.

Elsewhere, the intellectual trio of Cynthia Dunn, Tony Olson and Mike Newhouse decide to participate in the evening's festivities. Pink and his friend David Wooderson, a man in his early 20s who still socializes with high school students, pick up Mitch and head for the Emporium, a pool hall frequented by teenagers.As the night progresses, students loiter around the Emporium, listen to rock music, cruise the neighborhood and stop at the hamburger drive-in. Mitch is introduced to sophomore Julie Simms, with whom he shares a mutual attraction. While cruising again with Pink, Pickford and Don Dawson, Mitch drinks beer and smokes marijuana for the first time. After a game of mailbox baseball, a neighborhood resident brandishing a gun threatens to call the police.

They barely escape after the resident fires at their car. After returning to the Emporium, Mitch runs into his middle school friends. They hatch a plan to get revenge on O'Bannion. It culminates with them dumping paint on O'Bannion, who leaves in a fit of rage.

After the Emporium closes, an impromptu keg party is planned in a field under a moonlight tower. Cynthia, Tony and Mike arrive at their first keg party, where Mike is threatened by tough guy Clint Bruno. Tony runs into freshman Sabrina Davis, whom he met earlier during the hazing and they begin hanging out together. Cynthia likes Wooderson and exchanges phone numbers with him. Mike, suffering from the humiliation of his confrontation with Clint, decides to make a stand, punches him and gets tackled.

The fight is broken up by Pink and Wooderson. Football player Benny O'Donnell confronts Pink about his refusal to sign the pledge. Pink, the only player not to have signed, believes it violates his individuality and beliefs. Mitch leaves the keg party with Julie. They drive to a nearby hill overlooking town to make out. Tony gives Sabrina a ride home and they kiss goodnight.

As night turns to dawn, Pink, Wooderson, Don, Ron Slater and several other friends decide to smoke marijuana on the 50-yard line of the football field. The police arrive so they ditch the drugs. Recognizing Pink, the police call Coach Conrad, his football coach. Conrad lectures Pink about hanging out with "losers" and insists that he sign the pledge. Pink says that he might play football but he is not going to sign it. Pink leaves with his friends to get tickets to an Aerosmith concert. Mitch arrives home after sunrise to find his mother has waited up for him. She decides against punishment but warns him about coming home late again. Mitch goes to his bedroom, puts on headphones and listens to "Slow Ride" by Foghat as Pink, Wooderson, Slater and Simone Kerr travel down a highway to purchase their tickets.

Musical influences: What were the tracks that rocked the film?

1:Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo"Rick Derringer 3:44

2."Slow Ride" (Single version)Foghat 3:58

3."School's Out"Alice Cooper 3:29

4."Jim Dandy"Black Oak Arkansas 2:42

5."Tush"ZZ Top 2:17

6."Love Hurts"Nazareth3:53

7."Stranglehold"Ted Nugent 8:24

8."Cherry Bomb"The Runaways 2:19

9."Fox on the Run"Sweet 3:26

10."Low Rider"War 3:13

11."Tuesday's Gone"Lynyrd Skynyrd 7:32

12."Highway Star"Deep Purple 6:08

13."Rock and Roll All Nite"Kiss 2:57

14."Paranoid"Black Sabbath 2:47

The Montreal film journal states that There is no real plot; instead, The cast follows a bunch of different teenagers on May 28th 1976, (the last day of school and the perfect night to party) (Dazed and confused 2002)

How is the music in this film important ?

No title better sums up the state in which high school leaves you — sometimes for life — than Dazed and Confused. The movie gets things right, too. Writer-director Richard Linklater — whose cult hit, the soundtrack for the film was resolutely right now — has gone retro. Linklater set his new social satire in 1976, with a soundtrack of great relics ranging from Aerosmith to ZZ Top. It's the last school day before summer, and scarily, it all looks familiar. Trying to get blitzed on grass, beer, music, brawling and sex clearly transcends time. But undeniably, what makes the film truly great is its script and its musical reform that is a gift that keeps on giving and seems to get better with every viewing. After all the story unfolds over the course of just one day the last day of school before the summer of 1976, To be precise and essentially consists of a group friends hanging out in a variety of different settings in a small Texas town. And yet it draws you in, and leaves you feeling desperately nostalgic for an era that was, for many, way before your time. Here, in celebration of one of our all-time favourites, we learn some valuable lessons from the film's greatest lines including some of the worlds most talented musical acts that the world has seen to date thus far.The music makes up the feel good sensations of the film and sets the tone and time for that era of musical influences

Referencing

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2- Guy, N., Rider, L., Emotion, S., Ride, F., Gone, T., & Bomb, C. (2018). Dazed and Confused (1993) Soundtrack and Complete List of Songs. What-song. Retrieved 25 June 2018, from https://www.what-song.com/Movies/Soundtrack/336/Dazed-and-Confused

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