Thursday, 18 September 2014

Family Guy Notes


How dose family guy attract an audience?

  • Family Guy uses it's colourful animation and characters as an ironic joke.
  • Surrealism. Talking baby and dog.
  • The humour uses references from different medias such as Star Wars this is called intertextuality.
  • Representation of an audience.
  • Cut away gags.
  • Offensive comedy.
  • Dim-witted protagonist.
  • Parody.
  • Older demographic.
  • Overdramatic comedy.
  • Slap-stick.
  • Villains use British accent and have know sophistication.
  • Polysemic multi layered text.
  • Stereotypes.
  • Relationship critique.
  • Gender diversion.
  • Song mimicry take.
  • Exaggerations.
  • Disabilities.
  • Animated leid -> adult dilemmas is conversations.
  • Irony.
  • Historic racism.
  • Relationship affairs.
  • Sound issues.
  • Technical issues.
  • Mise-en-scene issues.
  • Observational comedy.
  • Rites of passage.
  • Intertextual reference: costume (M-E-S) Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean)
  • Pretentious.
  1. Figure expression movement (body language)
  2. Props
  3. Setting/Location
  4. Lighting

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