Sunday 7 December 2014

[ NO.8 ] Research Group 13 - Genre and teen film

Genre means the style of category . Teen drama is a style of category . Teen films are films that's a created around teens and their life and how they feels when certain things go on . as a result of this there are two main dominate ides about teen films .
1. teen films are defined by its audience about anything else
2. the appeal of teen film isn't restricted to specific ages ears or locations.

Mean Girls
Mean girls is a very well known teen film .
The the title sequence of mean girls we first see all the production companies  then all the associations with the film ,Name of the film  , Names of actors , extra information for example this film was based on a book called the Queen bees and the Wannabees .
Mean girls have a big budget so they have a bigger crew meaning longer credits.
Mean girls made $17 million in the opening weekend
and had a world wide release and was shown in 3,054 theatres this means this film is a mainstream film. Mean girls title sequence was titles with motion as it allowed the audience to get straight into the movie this showed it was a Narrative title sequence.

Contrastingly
My brother the devil
is an less known film as it had a very low budget under 1 million. In the title title sequence for My brother the devil we first see all the production companies then it stats introducing us to the main actors , the rest of the actors are shown however unlike mean girls we see Lighting manger , casting director , producers , exclusive producers , customer designers e.c.t .
My brother the devil is a low budget film this means it had an restricted released so the box office was not as big as mean girls . box office was $ 1,200, 100 ,  the opening weekend was $ 44,833 . and this was a independent film.



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