3. Genre
Our film is a cross between a socially realist comedy
like Little Miss Sunshine and the more conventional
comedy like Step brothers
HYBRID
GENRE
4. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge conventions of real media products
There are several areas in which we can discuss
conventions:
Generic conventions
Opening Sequence conventions
Filmic Conventions
5. Opening Sequence Conventions
Conventionally not much happens in the first
few
minutes of an opening sequence.
Character and/or narrative Context is usually
Established
Step Brothers Twin Thing
Two Middle aged men living Teenage twins are introduced
like teenagers are introduced They are the opposite of
They live in the suburbs with each-other and live in the city
their parents
6. Genre Conventions
Challenges
Having Characters with mental health issues
This unusual to find in the conventional teen comedy however in a film such as little miss sunshine it is an
issue explored but not in a teenage character
Using Generic Conventions
Teenage characters
Contemporary music track
The teen bedroom as location
Binary opposites
7. FILMIC CONVENTIONS
Our Film follows many
filmic conventions:
Real Media text
Titles
Continuity editing
Cross cutting Our Film
Different Camera angles
and size
8. How does your media product represent particular social
groups ?
Teenagers in society today
Break conventions of showing mental health in the cinema.
Add humor to what people don’t discuss regularly about OCD.
There are two representations in our film
Normal Teen OCD teen
is represented as: is represented as:
Messy Naïve
Lazy Girly
Smoker Obsessively clean
unhealthy Health freak/paranoid
9. How does your media product represent particular social
groups ?
Although our media product sticks to the themes and
conventions of feature films. We would like to think that we
have broken the boundary of showing mental health in
comedy.
Our film introduces two characters who are the direct
opposites of each other. One of the characters being
obsessively clean to the point of OCD, and the other being
completely scruffy and disgusting.
11. The audience for our film would be teens from
the age of 14-18.
This film would appeal to that age group because
it includes issues that affect them, for example
the daily morning routine before school .
Our film is aimed at teens who enjoy
drama/comedies and socially real dramas such
as Skins or the In-betweeners on television.
12. How did you attract/address your audience?
creating an enigma
By creating questions that the audience would want answers to (are these twins, are they
related?)
using music
We used a contemporary soundtrack that would appeal to a young audience
Mode of Address
we wanted to address our audience in a way that did not make them seem young and
stupid. Offering real characters that are not ‘fake’ in any way
13. How do you attract/address an audience?
We used bright contrasting colours with each of the characters to match
their characters. The neat twin has light pastel colored. We hoped that this
attention to detail would attract the audience
14. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
•Technologies made our film and made us into prosumers
•Open source software. We media allowing us to create quality
•Creativity. Technologies meant we could be very creative
•Professional editing software
In order to make our film we had to learn to use Final Cut Pro.
We also learnt to use celtex to create our script
16. We learnt a great deal as we progressed from the
preliminary task. We have learnt that making a
film needs a lot of research and strong planning
with a greater amount of detail
Editor's Notes
IntroductionsExplain this is an evaluationIntroduce them to our production company Olive Films an independent british production compayTheme/subject matter Comedy
GenreOur film is a cross between a socially realist comedy like Little Miss Sunshine and Step brothers extreme characters. We have aimed our teen drama/comedy at teens from the ages of 14-18 because it has humor that will appeal to those ages.
Our film doesn’t challenge many conventions. The only thing that could be considered breaking a convention is the fact that we explored mental health in teenage lives, this could be considered breaking a convention because we tried to put this across comically by using contrapuntal music to add an element of humor. We didn’t challenge any filmic conventions we used Match on Action and used Jump cuts to illustrate our ideas and the characteristics of each character. The forms and conventions we used didn’t weren’t contradicting other media products. We filmed it conventionally using medium, large and close up shot sizes and included jump cuts. This doesn’t really break any conventions.
Our film doesn’t challenge many conventions. The only thing that could be considered breaking a convention is the fact that we explored mental health in teenage lives, this could be considered breaking a convention because we tried to put this across comically by using contrapuntal music to add an element of humor. Our film folows many of the conventions of teen comedies with the characters the use of mise en scene as well as using a modern song that the audience would identify with
Although our media product sticks to the themes and conventions of feature films. We would like to think that we have broken the boundary of showing mental health in comedy. Our film introduces two characters who are the direct opposites of each other. One of the characters being obsessively clean to the point of OCD, and the other being completely scruffy and disgusting. I feel that this product could appeal to teenage groups because it introduces mental health in to a teenage genre.
-A lot of films in the comedy genre open their films with music that attracts the audiences. For example Step Brothers uses A punk by Vampire Weekend to set the tone of their film. We did this too by trying to set an atmosphere for the film.
We used bright contrasting colours with each of the characters to match their characters. The neat twin has light pastel coulered things around her in this shot, where as the scruffy twin has red and black things sorrounding her. We did this to give insight in to their characters.
