Whilst filming our teaser trailer we tried to use as many typical comedy conventions to fit the genre of our film. We decided to set our film in an American high school and based our humour around adolescence conflict. We also decided to use narrative comedy a typical convention of a relationship developing between two characters.
Whilst filming we also tried to use as many different camera angles and shots as possible that were conventional to the genre of our film, similar to films such as 'Juno'. We used close ups,and extreme close ups to focus on the characters movements to represent and emphasise their personalities and their stereotypical 'geek' characteristics. Whilst filming we used a tripod to situate the camera and pan the area of the shot to follow movements of the characters, as well as to have the setting present in the background of the shots, showing the high school setting, which is typical of an American teen comedy.
We tried to make our humour as obvious a possible through mise-en-scene, props, costume, stereotypes, costume and unconventional scenes. This helps to allow the audience to laugh at the characters and the personalities that they portray throughout the film, we tried to makethe costume that they are wearing to be stereotypical of a geek in comparison to the beauty shot of a popular student from the same school. We decided to make everything in our teaser trailer over the top to help to add to the humour and make the genre of the film more obvious to the audiece.
The narrative of our film is not only conventional of a comedy, but also has some conventions of spoof and romance films.
We were inspired by the films 'Juno', 'Scary Movie' and 'Napoleon Dynamite'. The reason we chose to create this type of film was due to wanting to entertain our particular audience which was between the age of 15 and 18 as we hoped that they would relate to a film of this particula genre.
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