Genre Conventions

L/O: Explore Genre codes and Conventions.
Monday 27th March 2017

Chick-Flick

Genre Conventions:

1. Colour scheme-Pink
2.  Cliques
3. Teenagers
4. Relationships
5. Stereotypes
6. School

Directors:

1. Jason Moore- Pitch Perfect
2. viestars
3. Christian Ditter- Love Rosie

Chick Flick movie stars:

1. Amanda Seyfried
2. Jennifer Aniston

3 Blockbuster films:

1. Pitch Perfect
2. Mama Mia
3. Legally Blonde

Set in a school. Typical cliques with the singing groups. Main girl falls in love with boy. 

Main girl loves pink, rich teenager. Goes to school to be with boy. Falls in love with boy. 

Teenage girl getting married, wants to find her dad. Close to her mum.

Films teenagers would prefer:

1. Mean Girls
2. Pitch Perfect
3. Love Rosie

Five things to make genre popular:

1. Cliques
2.  Main Girl and Boy
3. Teenagers
4. Pop Musc
5. Drama

Social Issue Related film:

Love Rosie is about a girl called Rosie who gets pregnant when she's 18 but the dad leaves her so she has to bring up the child on her own as he thinks they're too young. He returns about five years later wanting to be with her again.

 

Recipe for a Chick Flick trailer:

Ingredients:

• A Pretty Teenage Girl
• A Fit Boy of the same age or older
• Setting like a school
• Cliques with Stereotypes
• Something Pink

Method:

1. Enrol the teenage girl into a new school.
2. Get her to meet the populars who introduce her to the cliques
3. Meet the Fit boy of the school
4. They get together
5. Problem solved