Apply the media concept of Genre to your film

Apply the media concept of Genre to your film

Genre is style of art.

Our holiday is a teen comedy that fit perfectly with this genre, why.

The comedy we used in very clever because most of the humor is meant to appeal to teenage ranging form 15-19. This is because situation we used in Our Holiday is normal not as funny in real life. An example of this could be the audience is invited to understand Albert’s obsession with girl and how he is able he will be able to over come his nerves to ask Julie out. The audience is able to understand the narrative is deliberately set up to be funny. Therefore when the audience expectation is interpreted this makes our holiday a greater engaging story, such as the introduction of Kel who is introduced when Albert leaves the library.

Character behaviour has an affect on genre. This is shown through the way the characters interacting with each other. Kel is a chilled out sort of character, which makes him act in humorously because of the way he presents himself in audience. He has a very interesting perception of life as his interests revolve around himself, for example eating potato chip can watch television. This is funny because most teenage are most concerned about the social life. Therefore the characters behaviour is key to making the teen comedy successful as all the character express characteristics of the personality that teenage will find most funny.

Outside influences from the society has an impact on the genre as the teenage in our holiday are seen to be trouble makers the older generation. However the genre is on the side of the teenage which aim to prove that they are not as bad as they you think. The society is presented from the point of view of the teenage which makes the opening appeal to young people more that older people, so the film opening has got to be biased in order to work for the teenage. Our holiday shows the society is a place where everyone should work together to achieve the common good. Therefore the society is used as a tool to bring the comedy together, in a way that appeal to a wider target audience.

Furthermore the genre of the opening makes the main characters, which are the teenage group of friend, come across as leaders of the film. The film follows this group of young people through there day to day activities. The audience is encouraged to relate to the event that take place and understand the messages illustrated. An example of this is following Albert’s way to get with Julie.  He is a very brainy individual who has a passion for books, although beauty plus the geek is an equation that our holiday tries to put together. Therefore the characters in our holiday viewed as individual that are just like normal teenagers.

The aims and objective Our Holiday wants to achieve are indicated early on. This is because the opening is meant to hook the viewer as soon as possible as well as making the audience build up an idea of the teenagers in our Holiday. The teenage comedy has been forced to change over the year, because of the way in which teenage go about dealing with there troubles. However the concepts are still the same, such as the concept of love and friendship.  So the genre Our Holiday represents is very relatable to those who are the current teenagers today.

In conclusion the genre of Our Holiday is teenage comedy, as well as meeting audience expectations equals to the views pleasure. The function of language offers a set of rules and a vocabulary with which to organize the meaning of the story. The relationship between the film and the audience is strong which will reduce the risk of financial failure. Our Holiday is used to offer comforting reassurance and a closing down of the complexities of life, which makes the target audience increasingly able to understand the return to Our Holiday’s equilibrium. The characteristics Our holiday represent are recognized by audience over time, such as the mise en scene and themes.

CAMERA STUFF

Camera stuff for opening; MightyMedia12! GREAT news is that the camera has come back, and we have bought some little accessories to shoot our opening with. For those of you who don't know, our film is called The Holiday. It tells the story of 5 friends going on a holiday to Oxford, as they are pretty much broke, however make friends with Oxford locals and sparks a new generation of friendships between two stereotyped regions of the UK. Essex being typically "Working class", and Oxford, "upper class". Now.. I should let you know that the actors are all from Oxford, but they are absolutely fantastic, so you are in for a great film. This film plays on the sterotypes of Age and Class, which are very highly stereotyped in our society, and the moral of this film is to kind of get rid of those sterotypes, and show that relationships can be built, wherever you are from. (Aww isn't that nice!?) Here are some pictures of the equiment we are using: our camera. our dolly. and finally our lighting set

How does text relate to the concept of genre

How does text relate to the concept of genre

Setting and Location. For example, the western is frequently set on a frontier between 'nature' and 'civilisation', with all the associations and recognisable signs of that frontier; the Gothic genre, with its reliance on a location associated with a decaying aristocratic tradition, is very different in setting from the Urban Detective movie, with its setting being cosmopolitan and frequently involving low life. Location is not simply geographical, e.g. 19th century Cornwall or 21st. Century planetary colonies!

Characterisation. Included here are factors such as the complexity, status, function of characters, the reliance on stereotypes, and the emphasis on particular aspects of the lives of those characters - professional, sexual, moral, psychological, or social. Questions of characterisation are inextricably linked with those of plot, e.g. Which came first, plot or characters? Does the plot "generate" the characters, or does it work the other way round?

Plot and Structure. Genre influences the basis, development and terms of explication and resolution of the plot - e.g. the Thriller is concerned with questions of social disorder and its restoration, the detective thriller with the detection and punishment of criminality, the Romantic text with the attainment or otherwise of the desired object or person. The basic point underlying this is that narratives are structured on the principle of disorder, transgression or disequilibrium; the nature of the genre influences the ways in which that disorder (problem) is developed and resolved. Think back to the diagram discussed last week (p.15). Characters serve this basic structural principle, as participants within or functions of this movement from disorder to order. Also involved here: the basis of the reassertion or restoration of order at the end of a text is influenced by the particular genre. For example, moral order restored in the Western, romantic attainment in the Romance (based on a narrative of desire and coveting), and categories of supernatural/other-ness/monstrous in texts concerned with the supernatural. The detective thriller, however, will generally resolve through a rational and secular form of explanation or resolution.

Themes and Concerns. With (3) above comes the tendency of particular genres to be concerned with exploring or resolving certain issues or themes. For example, the detective genre is preoccupied with questions of law and social order, criminality, property ownership, justice and legality; romantic films and fiction with moral and sexual orders, the transfer of property and the 'heir', and also issues of reason vs. passion, normality and abnormality. Horror fiction is concerned with exploring the nature of the 'monstrous' or 'other', the metaphysical order, natural and cultural, the scientific and empirical against the supernatural and unknown.

Pleasures, Expectations and Narrative Address. Each genre generates particular pleasures and expectations in the audience, whether the pleasures are cognitive (problem-solving, analytical, informational), or affective (empathy and engagement, vicarious thrilling or escapism). There's also the question of the 'placing' of the desired or 'ideal' viewer/reader, and the way that particular genres create or address particular races, gender or class groups.

Style. This is a more general and amorphous category, but refers to the ways in which a genre influences or directs such features as film technique and the manipulation of the image, the selection of music, the reliance on 'stars' and of the role and style of the director. Within a couple of minutes of watching a film or programme we already have been able to make some sort of conscious judgement about the kind of film or programme we are watching, and we have come to this judgement through being able to pick up on these general 'signs'