The first document provides information about the romantic comedy film LOL starring Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore. It's about a teenager navigating high school relationships and friendship while dealing with her overbearing mother. The second document is about the romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. It's about a man who falls for a woman who doesn't believe in love and their evolving relationship. The third document is about the romantic comedy Friends with Benefits starring Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake. It's about two friends who start a friends with benefits arrangement but complications arise when feelings develop.

2. Director – Lisa Azuelos
Producers – Loredana Mortensen
Michael Shamberg
Stacey Sher
Tish Cyrus
Starring – Miley Cyrus
Demi Moore
Douglas Booth
In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook,
Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high
school romance and friendship while dodging their
sometimes overbearing parents. When Lola's mom, Anne,
"accidentally" comes across and reads her teenage
daughter's journal, she realises just how wide their
communication gap has grown. Through hilarious and
heartfelt moments between mother and daughter, LOL is a
fresh coming-of-age story for modern times.

3. An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who
doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man
who falls for her. He's Tom, from New Jersey, working
in L.A. writing greeting cards even through he's an
architect by training. She's Summer from Michigan.
Day one is her first day in Tom's office. We jump back
and forth in time: by day 67, they've become an item
when she decides to put aside the lovemaking and just
be friends. Tom, a romantic who's sure Summer is the
one for him, wallows in self pity.
Director – Marc Webb
Producers – Mason Novick
Jessica Tuchinsky
Mark Waters
Steven J. Wolfe
Scott G. Hyman
Starring – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Zooey Deschanel

4. Jamie is a New York head-hunter trying to sign Los
Angeles-based Dylan for her client. When he takes
the job and makes the move, they quickly become
friends. Their friendship turns into a friendship
with benefits, but with Jamie's emotionally
damaged past and Dylan's history of being
emotionally unavailable. While trying to avoid the
clichés of Hollywood romantic comedies, Dylan and
Jamie soon discover however that adding the act of
sex to their friendship does lead to complications.
Director – Will Gluck
Producers – Martin Shafer
Liz Glotzer
Jerry Zucker
Janet Zucker
Starring – Mila Kunis
Justin Timberlake

5. In the genre of rom com you always have the two main characters being a male and female
who are love interests for one or the other. These characters then shape the storyline of the
film. It always starts of calm then something occurs which disrupts the equilibrium. By the
end of the film everything is back to being calm and the damaged equilibrium has been
solved. The usual disruption in a rom com film is normally and argument or a break up
which is resolved by making up and getting back together. It’s normally the girl who is left
heat broken but when it comes to 500 days of summer they break the convention by making
the male character the one that is heartbroken in the end.
In the film This is 40 you can see intertextual references from the film Knocked Up. Events
happen in the same diegetic word with characters and events referred to across the films.
The audience can see this through the use of marijuana being used. They can also see the
use of intertextuality through the main characters Paul and Debbie in This is 40. The reason
for this is because the same actors play exactly the same characters in the film Knocked Up..

6. When it comes to starts in the rom com genre you would usually see the same
actor or actress in these type of films. This theory is used to sell the film through
the actors or actress’ starring in it rather than the actual film. They would choose
an actor or actress for how popular they are and how well they appeal to a wider
audience. This can be shown in the rom com film, LOL which stars Miley Cyrus.
She is seen as a big star for the target audience of young teenagers for this film so
they audience will be able to relate to her better. As well as this, they would get a
wider audience going to see the film just because she is it in not because they
have an interest in the storyline. Another rom com film that this theory has been
used in is new film, That Awkward Moment. This film stars actor Zac Efron who
isn’t normally seen as the rom com type actor but the director of this film knows
that the audience would want to see it just because he stars in it.

7. This part of the trailer shows the two
main characters together. The way that
they are lay close and smiling at each
other shows the audience that this is a
romance film.
This part of the Friends with Benefits
trailer shows a sense of comedy. This
can be seen through the two main
characters of the film. The audience
will be able to tell this is part of the
comedy genre as her drawing on his
face whilst he is asleep is seen as
something funny.

8. When it comes to media literacy with
films there are various sources that
are used. Something that is getting
fairly common in this generation of
media is the use of social network
sites. The main ones that are used are
Facebook and Twitter. These are used
by having groups and accounts that
are for purely about the film industry.
They work by posting about new
releases and what will be coming out
later in the year. Now a lot of the
younger generation use these social
networking sites means that they will
see these posts and pass the
information on to their friends. Other
ways you can find out about films is
through web apps, blogs and
magazines.

9. Reception theory is a version of reader response literary theory that emphasizes the
reader's reception of a literary text. It is more generally called audience reception in
the analysis of communications models.
When it comes to reception theory according to Stuart Hall audience members adopt
to one of the following positions when they decode the film or text:
Dominant or Preferred - how the producer wants the audience to view the media
text;
Oppositional - when the audience rejects the preferred reading, and creates their
own meaning for the text;
Negotiated - a compromise between the dominant and oppositional readings, where
the audience accepts parts of the producer's views, but has their own views on parts
as well.
There are various reasons as to why we might take the dominant, oppositional or
negotiated reading, for example;
• Age
• Gender
• Social Class
• Ethnicity

10. • Active spectatorship theory
suggests each viewer is
different and many people in
the audience will question
the film and react to it in
different ways to others, not
just blindly accepting the
messages.
• It also relates to the idea of
FANDOM where the audience
for a particular film adopts it
as their own.
• Also takes into account pre
and post viewing
experiences.