Film Conventions Analysis

Film Conventions Analysis

What is your favourite genre of film, and why?

My favourite genre would have to be sci-fi because sci-fi is different from reality and I find things that exactly real more interesting.

Select your favourite film to analysis:

Film Title: The worlds end      Year: 2013

Genre: Sci-fi action comedy       

Using IMDb, find out the budget and gross box office of the film:

$28,000,000 (estimated)

$26,003,149 (USA)

As an audience member, what are you expectations of this genre?

Funny, explosions, aliens, robots, drunk people

What genre conventions does the poster incorporate?

Explosions, aliens, robots, space, fire.

How might the film have a ‘pre-sold’ audience?

People who have watched other films from the director e.g. Shaun of the Dead.

People who like the cast.

Watch the trailer for your film. Argue how the trailer conforms to (or subverts) the conventions of the genre (300 words):

From watching the trailer I have noticed how it conforms and subverts from the conventions of the the genre. In the beginning of the trailer it shows the history of when the cast were younger and basically what it does is tell the plot from a different time. It shows them getting drunk and falling over which conforms well to the comedy side of it. After it shows them in the future and they are all separated which kind of subverts from the comedy because you would think they are all in one big comedic group together because they are what make it funny. It does however show Simon Pegg going around asking them to join him on a mission they call “The Golden Mile” but he does it ecstatically which conforms with comedy genre. Later On in the trailer it shows the group going to their old hometown and meeting all the people, but something is up with them, for example the people in the town are all walking in sync with each other which adds to the sci-fi because they are walking like robots. Not long after that it shows the people lighting up with a blinding blue glow and emitting a strange noise. This strongly conforms to the Sci-fi