Genre Essay homework 

The film i am going to analyse is 'Blended', it is a hybrid genre; romantic, family, comedy. The plot of the film is a single mum with two sons is looking for a man after getting divorced and a single father with three daughters is looking for a women to help him rise his daughters and the two main characters played are set up on a blind date which goes horribly wrong. however, they both get the chance of a life time to go to Africa but the twist is that they both don't know the other one is going and they end up meeting at the resort and are forced to spend their remaining time there together and eventually the start to fall in love and they end up together by the end.

the main two characters are Jim and Lauren, Jim is a typical man who works all day however he is also a full time dad to his three daughters as his wife died so he was left to look after them all but when it comes to looking after three girls of all different ages he starts to find it very difficult. Lauren is also a full time parent for her two sons however se is divorced from her husband and is focused on juts her job and her sons but. nth characters are very relatable as a lot of audience members can relate to their situations as they are just living ordinary working lives. The children brendan, tyler, ESPN, hillary and lou are the stock characters that bring the humour into the film as they are young children/teenagers and everything they do embarrasses their parents or gets them into trouble which makes the parents more relatable as audiences members who have children can relate to their children also getting into trouble in public places and embarrassing them. they also help move the narrative by assisting the main characters (their parents) in stopping them from getting together as they don't want to have a new family.

the film starts of set in a suburban city in america where both the families live and work, but then they go on holiday to Africa and the majority of the fpm is filmed there until the en when they have to leave and go back home. at the beginning in the suburban city the whether is calm and sunny and the area is very clean and it looks expensive to live there which could suggest that people living there have very good jobs that pay well which doesn't make the characters completely readable to everyone watching the tim as not everyone has good enough jobs or lives in nice, clean suburban areas, and in Africa the whether is very sunny and hot and the resort that they all stay in is very family friendly as there is a play area for all the little kids and then there is a restaurant for where the adults can sit and relax and enjoy entertainment and eat whatever they want which is a typical setting for a family resort somewhere however its not very relatable unless you have  been on holiday as a single parent with your children.

The equilibrium is the two single parents with children to look after and they don't know how to react in certain situations as the single mum has two sons and the single dad has three daughters.The disruption of the narrative is when the two families are both offered the same trip but they don't know that they both are planning on going. The recognition of the disruption in the text is when the families run into each other at the resort and find out they have to share a room and spend the hole trip together.In an attempt to repair the disruption the two single parents decide to go along with everything and deal with all the situations in their own way and do their own separate things unless they have to be together.The reinstatement of equilibrium is at the end when the two families come together as the parents realise they are in love and should be together.All of these are the typical narrative developments of romantic comedies as they all have similar narratives with just change of character types.

The music in the trailer starts of as a simple pop soundtrack like most romantic comedies have as it represents the time period the movie is set in, however, once the trailer gets to just over 2 minutes the music plays in small quick clips of different pop songs with each close up of each person at the table when they see hillary the oldest daughter walking to the table after having a make over to show their different reactions and emotions towards her and her new look. The stars who feature in this film are Adam Sandler who is a very well-known actor who does a lot of comedies and is a big influence with the comedy side of the film, another really well-known actor in the movie is Drew Barrymore; even though she is more famous for doing more serious romantic dramas she also brings and element of comedy to the film which surprises the audience as they don't expect her to be as funny as she is, the use of these big time actors is what helps attracts more audience members as fans of these actors will see them in the trailer and might decide to go see the film and they might also see that it is a romantic comedy and seeing the pairing of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore will make them think that it is unusual for two completely different actors to be in this romantic comedy and they will go see it. The director Frank Coraci has directed a lot of Adam Sandler movies so it was no surprise that he directed this movie as well.