By Hannah Sharp

GENRE RESEARCH

Genre is used to and categorise different types of films, such as horror, thriller, chick-flick, teen

movies, crime, and Action. Genre is very important to the media

world, as it helps the viewer to choose what type of film, music to

watch and listen to.

MEANING OF GENRE

I have chosen to use the film ‘Juno’ which can fall into a lot of different genres such as, coming of age, romance film, comedy,

indie film and drama.

I have chosen this genre because you can use any type of opening, and you can also contrast the music to the image, for example you could set it out of a dark rainy night, but put jolly, lyrical music as you don’t know what the character is doing yet, however you could also make the opening scene, open in a park on a bright sunny with lyrical happy music, so it is a very wide spectrum of idea which you could use, and also in this type of film, you can shot it anywhere you like, for example you could

shot someone walking down a street like Juno, or getting ready in a bedroom, or even someone making breakfast.

CHOSEN GENRE

The way that males are portrayed in the film ‘juno’ is that they are oblivious and that they don’t really know what they are doing with important thing

such as pregnancy. In the film Juno, the main male character, Paulie Bleeker is on the running team at college, which is full of ‘freaks’ but when Juno

becomes pregnant he doesn’t really know what to do, and he tries to be her friend rather than a boyfriend, and when Juno ‘pushes’ him away he doesn’t try and help her. This shows that Paulie is weak and quite oblivious to the

important factors in his life.

In Juno, the females are portrayed as strong independent teenagers in the film. The main character in the film, Juno, has just found out that she is

pregnant, and she is taking this into her own hands and she is dealing with it in her own way, with the help from her best friend, she found herself good

adoption parents for her unborn child and she made sure that they were good enough for her child. This shows that the females in Juno are

portrayed as independent women, however at the end, once she has had the baby she goes back to Paulie Bleeker, therefore this shows that she still has

teenage thoughts and feelings.

REPRESENTATION OF DIFFERENT CHARACTERS

In my genre I would expect to see opening titles which had bubbly, fun types of text such as the texts shown

to the right, as you can see these fonts are quite simple and plain, this is because the film is made out to be

quite simple, especially Juno, however in the opening title of Juno,

the image gets transformed into cartoon just whilst the

credits/opening titles are on the screen, however when I do my

opening credits to my films, I wont be doing this, however I will have the

style of the transition of the opening credits, this is because on Juno, the

opening credits appear on the screen in certain places such as when Juno walks past a fence, as she is walking

past the fence the credits appear word by word after she has walked passed a certain point of the fence.

OPENING TITLES

The setting of Juno is in her hometown, and the scene within the film are the most important places to her at that moment, for example, in the opening

credits, she is walking down a street, and she is on her way to the shop for a pregnancy test, but she goes through lots of different types of locations, for example, at first she is walking past houses, then she gets to a row of shops which you can see her walking past, then she goes through a forest and you

watch her walk into the shop, these locations of the opening credits are important, because it makes the viewer think that she has walked a long way

for something which is this important.

The setting and location is very important to the genre I am using because it shows what type of people that the characters are, for example in Juno, the

main setting is at Juno school/college which shows us that she is a school/college girl, and another place where quite a lot of the film are set is

at the adoptee’s house, this shows us that Juno wants to get to know the parents of her child well, so that she can get to know what they're like, this shows that Juno always being at this location means a lot to her, therefore

she spends a lot of time there.

SETTING AND LOCATION OF CHOSEN GENRE

The costumes for the character especially in this genre are really important this is because is shows what type of person that they are, meaning that the viewers normally stereotype the character so that

they know what they re like, for example, in Juno, the main character juno is dressed quite casual with jeans and a hoody, this shows that

she isn't a girly girl who is focused on her appearance, her main focus is just being herself, and being happy with the way she is,

whereas Paulie Bleeker is dressed to resemble a ‘jock’ however he is portrayed in the film as a weedy nerd, who tries to be a jock, when

really he isn’t anything like one, and also Bleeker has lots of different costumes such as when he is running with the running team, he has

very small skimpy shorts, but when he is walking around college he is in jeans and a football jacket. However Juno’s best friend looks like a

girly girl with her hair always done nice, and also she wears really girly items of clothing's such as skinny jeans and little vest tops.

COSTUMES AND CHARACTERS

The cinematography in the Juno opening is mostly shots like the 180 degree rule is what it starts off with, and they have

a lot of action shots too, as she is walking down different streets and other different backgrounds. The second shot is an over the shoulder shot which makes us see what juno is

and in this shot we can see she is looking at across the road which shows she is deciding whether to cross or not,

because i have interpreted this, I think that the audience will interpret this too.

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