How does you media project use develop or challenge the codes or convetions of your genre?

From the beginning, our film it is clearly aimed at the teen comedy genre. From the start we had the idea of exxaggerating the usually cliched genre in order to give humour, we drew this from the use of characters all being exxaggerated versions of characters many audience members could relate to or believe they attended school with. By doing this from the offest it also helped us to draw in and engage the audience. The use of characters which audience memebers could in some way relate to and the light hearted easy going nature of the film meant whilst it would appeal to outr target audience teens, it would also be understood by a host of ages as it is centred around light hearted entertainment. We took obvious influences from other popular films/tv series for example the Inbetweeners tv series/movie and the Big Bang Theory, each worldwide successe. Whilst the subject of each is different the format is the same as each follow the lives of four individuals, so we decided to have four lead characters in our film. Also the humour of each is obvious, something which we implemented into our film. Whilst we drew influences from these series/films we also looked at other films of the teen genre such as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Hott Fuzz and other films such as Trainspotting and Resevoir Dogs. We were interested by the opening scene of resevoir dogs and Hot Fuzz both similar. We liked the idea of trying to in some way spoof the Resevoir Dogs intro by having the character walk down the corridoor in a group, but also slow down the pace to intensify the situation and humour. We also took the idea of freeze framing each character and posting their name beneath from trainspotting as we felt it would quicker establigh connections between the audience and the character and their engagement into the film. Whilst we drew influences from American teen comedies, for example we took how the names of director/editor etc had been protrayed creatively in the opening sequences of Napoleon Dynamite, we wanted to keep the film about a British secondary school and in doing so keep some of the humour associated with the BFI. This has had major commercial success with the Inbetweeners movie in America and Europe and we hoped to replicate this success by portraying the slightly exxaggerated sixth from experience of four British 'Science Boys'.