Tropic Thunder.

Today we looked at an example of an action comedy that has recently been released, known as Tropic Thunder, we analysed the titles, convention, representations and audience of the film.

Titles : The titles are very simple, and try to avoid a complicated way of opening a film, to keep the audience interested, the titles show the name of the film, in a rugged, worn style of writing, this connotes the idea of things being war torn.
This engages the audience immediately, as it gets straight to the point, and the audience can read the signs, and understand that this is not a sombre and serious look at war. We may take in this method, and encorporate it into our own ideas, and maybe film, to follow to the methods that this comedy action film uses to keep their audience interested.

Representations:
The representations in Tropic Thunder vary, and are all men.
There is mainly a stereotypical representation of men, which means arrogance, rudeness, anger, stubborness, violence and persistence.
Some of the men are also represented as scared, weak and timid, which is associated with the typical nerdy character that we see in most films.
Finally some of the men are shown as confident, yet slightly fearful, and the leader kind of character that we see in most action films, but because of the comedy element, fear is added to show their soft side.
We can use these representations in our film to create characters that follow the typical ways that actors are in most comedy action films, using the stereotypical representations to put forward humor, and violence, sticking close to the comedy action genre, making a successful comedy action opening for a film.

Audience:
The typical audience for a comedy action film, would mainly consist of Older teens varying to middle aged men, and for those who enjoy that kind of mindless comedy, with vulgar references, violence, and humor. Which would be a typical teenager.
We can follow the typical audience and their interests, and formulate ideas that consist of their likes and dislikes, and encorporate these into our films, to help follow the tastes of todays normal audience, making a successful film opening, that pleases the audience, using representations that they have a liking for.

Conventions: There are many conventions of comedy action in this film, some small things, but alot of obvious ones that are easy to notice and are clear to the audience.
These consist of: Guns, explosions, tension, music, camouflage, men, fire, blood, helicopters and Death.
We can use these conventions to makea successful kind of comedy action opening.