My mums new boyfriend - Trailer analysis

1: Media Forms: How does the trailer use media language to estabilsh the film's genre?
The film genre is comedy action and romance, and the trailer helps establish this to us as the audience through the way media language is used. characters is a main way this is portrayed, as only from the trailer we can see that the main female role/ character of the "mother" is made to be amusing for instance at the beginning of the trailer she fall's over and ask's her son "am i dead?" this kind of light hearted humour reflects the film genre as being comedy and the fact that she is dating a criminal and her son knows, yet this kind of serious situation i made be to funny even through her son also connotes the theme of comedy. The action is shown through the fast paced scenes of the trailer, such as the car speeding and the guns used and a few shots of a fight scene were shown, this immediately suggests to the audience that the film is action and will have scenes of complete full on action, yet the film seems to be based on a couple's romance and the gradual falling in love of criminal, with scenes of romantic kissing under nights sky and sexual connotations also hinting to us the genre of romance.


2: Media Representations: How is 'The Family' represented in this trailer?
He whole theme of family is taken lightly in the text yet there still is family shown, for instance even though the mother seams to be a single parent and there is no sign of a father connoting he idea of a broken family and no sense of a nuclear family, on the other hand the fact that the son leaves at the beginning of the trailer, yet when he comes back he still comes back to his family home and back to his mother still manages to keep the whole form of family unity relevant throughout the text. another scene where the family is represented is through the role of the "Mother" as she's been portrayed as more immature and pretty dopey, as if the roles of parent and child have been switched and the son is made to be more responsible than the parent, this can be shown in the way the life of the mother is presented to us, as she has a boyfriend is going to parties and acting "rebellious" and drunk in fast cars with a criminal, she is shown to have no parental responsibilities or even a responsibly adults life. where as the son seems to be the more firm hold of the family as he has a well respected job as an FBI Agent and seems to be more in control when it comes to being responsible, and even though its part of his job, when he hears the danger his mums in with the reckless driving his automatic response is "MY MUMS IN THAT CAR" Suggesting his idea of family values comes first.