Evaluation Challenging Other Media Products

To start my evaluation I looked at what different things our media piece actually used. Looking at not only our final film but all of the research and planning before. I then went on to compare our final product with similar films of the same genre.

I started by researching into what were some of the most famous comedy films. I tried to include films I had already seen so it was easier for me to reflect. I looked at the different types of characters and found that the research we had done before support the way our main characters were all geeky. By looking at characters in SuperBad, McLovin and Evan (Michael Cera) I saw that they were similar to our characters Tom- who wants to be cool and Stu- who is straight edged and plain. A constant convention of a comedy is laughter. With our opening most of the elements are common actions but some are extremely over exaggerated and odd. For instance when the character Stu looks at his watch, he’s clearly waiting for his friends to be ready. Also when the character Bob is getting ready, there is a shot of him ‘checking himself out’ this is comical as its something that is often in comedies as is seen as funny. Later in the film we would plan to have funny lines, something memorable, like in a lot of comedies out at this moment. For instance Step Brothers has some memorable quotes ‘ can we make our beds into bunk beds so there is more room for activities’ this is already a funny quote but when every learns it and it is used in real life, it promote the film and makes people interested in it. Hopefully are film could do the same.

Titles- looking at other my timeline- the same? Better or worse?

The opening for our film clearly shows that its a comedy. By having bits that actually make the audience laugh is what makes the genre most apparent. By using certain scenes and certain techniques (like the cutting of the sound for Stus shots) it shows that the film isn’t a hundred percent serious and you can tell its meant to be like that. I think our group did well in picking out the right actors as they were able to over exaggerate there actions enough so they still looked real, but you knew they should be funny. I found when filming we helped to make this happen as when filming, it was very relaxed and we were already laughing when filming the shots. This gave us an indication that we would be making a Hybrid comedy genre.