Friday 14 September 2012

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Thursday 6 September 2012

Summer Project Notes: The Inbetweeners



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2201680/The-Inbetweeners-creator-blames-language-barrier-films-poor-U-S-box-office-performance.html


•           The Inbetweeners Movie (known as The Inbetweeners in North America) is a 2011 British coming-of-age comedy film based on the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners, written by series creatorsDamon Beesley and Iain Morris and directed by Ben Palmer. The film follows the misadventures of a group of teenage friends on holiday in Crete after the end of their final year at school together, and currently serves as an ending to the TV series. It stars Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison. The film was released on August 19, 2011 in the UK and will see a US release on September 7, 2012

•           On its first day of release, The Inbetweeners Movie grossed over £2.5 million in 409 cinemas, outperforming Cowboys & Aliens. The film then went on to set a new record for the most successful opening weekend ever achieved by a comedy film in the UK, overtaking Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and The Hangover Part II after earning £13,200,000. It retained its number 1 position in the UK film charts for 4 weeks, finally being overtaken by Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on 16 September 2011. As of November 20, 2011, the film's total box office gross is £45,028,695, which equates to $71,510,070.

•           The Inbetweeners Movie has received generally positive reviews, holding a 70% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Ian Freer of Empire Magazine gave the film four stars out of five, observing that "Like any holiday, it is episodic and suffers from repetition but this is gag-for-gag the funniest film of the summer and a fitting end to a much-loved series." Steve Rose of The Guardian gave the film three stars out of five, giving particular praise to Simon Bird's performance and arguing that the film "updates the teen summer holiday formula surprisingly entertainingly, considering it doesn't subvert it one iota and the formula was already done previously with Holiday on the Buses and Kevin & Perry Go Large among others." Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph also gave a positive assessment of the film, praising it as "an enormous hit, a Mamma Mia! for the Hangover demographic." Screen Daily, on the other hand, gave a mixed review, praising the performances of the main cast and proclaiming the film "Britain’s delayed riposte to American Pie," yet simultaneously arguing that it "can’t quite shake off its TV roots, and plot-wise, this is nothing the Greek tourist board would want to advertise." In contrast, Margaret Pomeranz from At the Movies called the characters "gormless" and said, "I’m giving this one star really generously".










http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/aug/22/inbetweeners-movie-sequel

http://travelblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/08/the-inbetweeners-film-is-glorifying-the-drunken-antics-of-britons-abroad.html
http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/the-inbetweeners-movie-sequel-confirmed-by-shows/281101

Article on how Inbetweeners gloryfies


Narrative 
· How is the narrative organised and structured?
One of the main characters, Will is the main narrator of the film. the film follows Todorov's equilbirium, disequilbirium, equilibrium strcuture. The narrative is clever because although the ideas portrayed within the film could be argued as being working class, the language used in the narration could arguably be seen as middlelass
· How is the audience positioned in relation to the narrative?
The audience is positioned as if the story is being retolled sometime in the future. This allows situtation which would be seen as unfunny in the present time to be regarded as hilarious.
· How are characters delineated? What is their narrative function? How are heroes and villains created?
The main story surrounds how one of the main characters, Simon is attempting to get over is ex girlfriend and we see this from a very personal perspective. Therefore, anyone who attempts to see himself as Carlys next boyfriend can be seen as being the villan.
· What techniques of identification and alienation are employed?
Because the main characters are all teenagers, the ideas and thought process that the characters go through can be directly assoicated with other teenagers and therefore fufills Katz & Blumler uses and gratifications theory.
· What is the role of such features as sound, music, iconography, genre, mise-en-scene, editing etc within the narrative?
The music used within this text connotes a party lifestyle. The main colours used are bright warm colours which connote heat and summer, a theme which this text promotes successfully
· What are the major themes of the narrative? What values/ideologies does it embody?
The main themes involved include sex, drinking and relationships. This can be observed from the very beginning when SImon breaks up with his girl friend.

 Genre 
· To which genre does the text belong?
This text belongs to the comedy genre
· What are the major generic conventions within the text?
there are many conventions within this text. Firstly, the comedy convention which is repeated throughout this text.
· What are the major iconographic features of the text?
The holiday movie is a iconic feature. Other famous holiday films includes Mr bean on holiday
· What are the major generic themes?
sex relationships, coming of age
To what extent are the characters generically determined?
they aim to represent a a stereotype of teenagers which conotes sex relationships drunk and irresponsible
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