Genre and Narrative Analysis. - The Inbetweeners.

1.What genre(s) is your film?

The Inbetweeners has a comedy genre.

2.What sub-genre is your film?

The sub-genre of The Inbetweeners is Comedy/ Romance, but mostly just a comedy.

3.Is it a hybrid genre? Which genres if so?

The Inbetweeners isn't a hybrid genre.

4.What iconography is present throughout the film that enables you to classify its genre?

In the Inbetweeners there is lots of jokes and comments that make people laugh, this is a characteristic that can be labled as iconography for the comedy genre. There is also one really dumb character this could also be iconography for the comedy genre.

5.Does your film apply with Todorov’s narrative structure? Explain why/why not.

The film the inbetweeners does apply with Todorov's narrative structure of equilibrium as at the start of the film they have just finished school and are on Holiday, they are having fun until they meet a girl from their school. This girl causes the group to split and there is a big argument, but at the end the group is back together and the girl is out the way again, although they aren't as calm as they were before, this is the same as Todorov describes in his theory. He said that there is calmness around, the state of equilibrium, then something happens to disrupt the balance, the disequilibrium, then at the end there is a state of new equilibrium.

6.Do any of the character’s match Propp’s 8 character types?

I don't think the characters in the Inbetweeners match Propp's 8 character types. Although some of the characters match not all of them do, there is about 4 characters that i can match.

7.Analyse the key binary oppositions in your film

I think the key binary opposition in the Inbetweeners is when the group breaks up, this doesn't last long but it clears the air between the boys and after it has a resolution of conflict. Another key binary opposition in the film could also be the fact the boys can't get with girls, this is also resolved at the end.

8.List the main action and enigma codes generated throughout the film

The main action and enigma codes in the Inbetweeners are.

- Will the boys ever get with any girls?

- Will Simon finally get with Carley?

- Who's staying at the run-down hotel?

- What will the boys get up to on holiday?

- where are they going?

- Who are they? (if you hadn't seen the series)

Posted by Andrew Games