Own genre analysis

 carry out your own genre analysis using the model provided by media theorist Daniel Chandler. Choose a film or TV text and answer the following questions:

General

1) Why did you choose the text you are analysing?

- The Good Neighbour 

2) In what context did you encounter it?

 I watched it at home with my sister, around the time it gets dark so as me and my sister watched -it gradually got extremely dark in the room with only fairy lights on.

3) What influence do you think this context might have had on your interpretation of the text?

4) To what genre did you initially assign the text? 

-Psychological Thriller

5) What is your experience of this genre?

 -It's one of my favourite genres so I enjoy most films within the genre.

6) What subject matter and basic themes is the text concerned with?

- two teens decide to put cameras into their neighbours house, who is an old elder male and is seeming a hermit character and they plan to watch him and almost tease him to see how he would react.

7) How typical of the genre is this text in terms of content?

it contains a lot of slow tense moments with one big build up to a shocking ending. it intrigues audiences with mystery.

8) What expectations do you have about texts in this genre?

i expected a lot of tension and interesting themes that are usually asked but are either too unethical to find out or unable to be looked at.

9) Have you found any formal generic labels for this particular text (where)?

10) What generic labels have others given the same text?

11) Which conventions of the genre do you recognise in the text?

12) To what extent does this text stretch the conventions of its genre? 

13) Where and why does the text depart from the conventions of the genre?
there isn't much action that is usually seen in thrillers and even though there is usually less action in psychological thrillers there is still much less in this film.

14) Which conventions seem more like those of a different genre (and which genre(s))?

15) What familiar motifs or images are used?

Mode of address

1) What sort of audience did you feel that the text was aimed at (and how typical was this of the genre)? i think it was aimed at middle class people because of the location of the film which seems to be a typical middle class neighbour hood however it could appeal to working class as well. although the main cast is mostly men and that would make it seem to appeal to mostly a male audiences there is a lot of sentimental themes within the film which appeal to female audiences.

2) How does the text address you? 

3) What sort of person does it assume you are? because of the themes i think it assumes its audiences to be empathetic towards characters and situations.

4) What assumptions seem to be made about your class, age, gender and ethnicity?

5) What interests does it assume you have?

Relationship to other texts

1) What intertextual references are there in the text you are analysing (and to what other texts)?

2) Generically, which other texts does the text you are analysing resemble most closely?

3) What key features are shared by these texts?

4) What major differences do you notice between them?