The document discusses genre research focused on the film "Juno". It can be categorized as a coming of age, romance, comedy, or indie drama genre. The film portrays females as strong and independent, while males seem oblivious. It uses simple, bubbly fonts for opening titles that appear on screen as the main character walks. The setting and locations are important to show the type of people the characters are. Costumes also help stereotype characters, like the main character Juno dresses casually while her friend dresses girly. Cinematography includes 180 degree shots and over the shoulder shots to see what Juno sees.

1. GENRE RESEARCH
By Hannah Sharp

2. MEANING OF GENRE
Genre is used to and categorise different types
of films, such as horror, thriller, chick-flick, teen
movies, crime, and Action.
Genre is very important to the media world, as it
helps the viewer to choose what type of
film, music to watch and listen to.

3. CHOSEN GENRE
I have chosen to use the film ‘Juno’ which can fall into a lot of different
genres such as, coming of age, romance film, comedy, indie film and drama.
I have chosen this genre because you can use any type of opening, and you
can also contrast the music to the image, for example you could set it out of a
dark rainy night, but put jolly, lyrical music as you don’t know what the
character is doing yet, however you could also make the opening scene, open
in a park on a bright sunny with lyrical happy music, so it is a very wide
spectrum of idea which you could use, and also in this type of film, you can
shot it anywhere you like, for example you could shot someone walking down
a street like Juno, or getting ready in a bedroom, or even someone making
breakfast.

4. REPRESENTATION OF
DIFFERENT CHARACTERS
The way that males are portrayed in the film ‘juno’ is that they are oblivious and that
they don’t really know what they are doing with important thing such as pregnancy. In
the film Juno, the main male character, Paulie Bleeker is on the running team at
college, which is full of ‘freaks’ but when Juno becomes pregnant he doesn’t really
know what to do, and he tries to be her friend rather than a boyfriend, and when Juno
‘pushes’ him away he doesn’t try and help her. This shows that Paulie is weak and quite
oblivious to the important factors in his life.
In Juno, the females are portrayed as strong independent teenagers in the film. The
main character in the film, Juno, has just found out that she is pregnant, and she is
taking this into her own hands and she is dealing with it in her own way, with the help
from her best friend, she found herself good adoption parents for her unborn child
and she made sure that they were good enough for her child. This shows that the
females in Juno are portrayed as independent women, however at the end, once she has
had the baby she goes back to Paulie Bleeker, therefore this shows that she still has
teenage thoughts and feelings.

5. OPENING TITLES
In my genre I would expect to see
opening titles which had bubbly, fun
types of text such as the texts shown to
the right, as you can see these fonts are
quite simple and plain, this is because
the film is made out to be quite
simple, especially Juno, however in the
opening title of Juno, the image gets
transformed into cartoon just whilst the
credits/opening titles are on the
screen, however when I do my opening
credits to my films, I wont be doing
this, however I will have the style of
the transition of the opening
credits, this is because on Juno, the
opening credits appear on the screen in
certain places such as when Juno walks
past a fence, as she is walking past the
fence the credits appear word by word
after she has walked passed a certain
point of the fence.

6. SETTING AND LOCATION OF
CHOSEN GENRE
The setting of Juno is in her hometown, and the scene within the film are the
most important places to her at that moment, for example, in the opening
credits, she is walking down a street, and she is on her way to the shop for a
pregnancy test, but she goes through lots of different types of locations, for
example, at first she is walking past houses, then she gets to a row of shops which
you can see her walking past, then she goes through a forest and you watch her
walk into the shop, these locations of the opening credits are important, because it
makes the viewer think that she has walked a long way for something which is this
important.
The setting and location is very important to the genre I am using because it
shows what type of people that the characters are, for example in Juno, the main
setting is at Juno school/college which shows us that she is a school/college
girl, and another place where quite a lot of the film are set is at the adoptee’s
house, this shows us that Juno wants to get to know the parents of her child
well, so that she can get to know what they're like, this shows that Juno always
being at this location means a lot to her, therefore she spends a lot of time there.

7. COSTUMES AND CHARACTERS
The costumes for the character especially in this genre are really important
this is because is shows what type of person that they are, meaning that the
viewers normally stereotype the character so that they know what they re
like, for example, in Juno, the main character juno is dressed quite casual with
jeans and a hoody, this shows that she isn't a girly girl who is focused on her
appearance, her main focus is just being herself, and being happy with the way
she is, whereas Paulie Bleeker is dressed to resemble a ‘jock’ however he is
portrayed in the film as a weedy nerd, who tries to be a jock, when really he
isn’t anything like one, and also Bleeker has lots of different costumes such as
when he is running with the running team, he has very small skimpy
shorts, but when he is walking around college he is in jeans and a football
jacket. However Juno’s best friend looks like a girly girl with her hair always
done nice, and also she wears really girly items of clothing's such as skinny
jeans and little vest tops.

8. CINEMATOGRAPHY
The cinematography in the Juno opening is mostly shots like the 180 degree
rule is what it starts off with, and they have a lot of action shots too, as she is
walking down different streets and other different backgrounds. The second
shot is an over the shoulder shot which makes us see what juno is and in this
shot we can see she is looking at across the road which shows she is deciding
whether to cross or not, because i have interpreted this, I think that the
audience will interpret this too.