Genre is category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
I will discuss the concept of genre and how this has an impact on my film opening.
The mix of Inbetweeners plus Gavin and Stacey has similar genres that we decided we would try to indicate. We decided we would use the comedic elements of the teenage comedy genre three months advance as well as coming up with the take 5 production company logo.
The film is called, Our Holiday, and tells the story of 5 friends in education, struggling, to say the least! Albert, Jessica, Kel, Jason and Emily are all Year 12 teenagers who have just finished their first set of exams; so they decide to go on a spontaneous summer break abroad. Well that doesn't really turn out the way that they hoped, as Albert makes the decision to take his friends to Oxford - A place that he has been once before. There they meet people in Oxford, who are contradict the stereotypes that Oxfordians supposedly hold. Through a sea of hillarious parties, chortling trips and one very funny man, this film is the perfect film to see you through the summer.
From an ideological perspective, this film is to show the stereotypes of Essex habitants, and Oxford habitiants, and how they are supposedly from completely opposite ends of the social and cultural spectrum and how they are contrasted when the two come together and make friends.
However, there is an underlying theme throughout of love - and that can be added to the genre. So I guess the genre is a cross between Teenage Comedy and Romantic Comedy... so... RomTeen Comedy!
The film constantly reiterates the themes of power/control/friendship and love, and I wrote the whole film to play on these themes, to create comedy!
The use of binary oppositions is also used in this themes - as the steretypical opposites are brought together.
I hope that makes sense! If you haven't - check out the film opening! Get those views up! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTqqZ1hR-gc
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