Media Diary Week 2

Name of text: St Trinians 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

Date/Time: 27th September/15:45

Genre: British Comedy 

What is the purpose: The purpose of the text is to challenge the norms of Britain's society by putting the main stereotypes in Britain  by and over doing the way that they behavior. The film producers would have aimed for this film to make people laugh at the over done characters and the shocking/humorous things that the characters say.

Institution producing the text: Ealing Studios, Fragile Films and UK Film Council 

Target audience: The target audience for this text would be people who fit into C1-E in the status income model, teenage girls who are quite confident and are not afraid to show who they are when people around people who are different from them. They would be British because the humor in this film is very British based and in order to find to comedy you would also have to be British. In the Young & Rubican's " 4 C's " they would be an Explorer and a main-streamer. They would be this because even though St Trinians challenges the norms of what is usually seen in a film it give people a form of familiarity to the humor that is used throughout the film. The targeted audience would fit into the lifestyle category of a drifter as they are not sure what they want from the film therefore the institution puts in bits of everything to satisfy the viewers who aren't 100% sure on what they want from the text.   

Your reaction to the text: My reaction to the text is laughter, becoming intrigued in where else the film is going to go and shock with how the girls in the film behave. In film the girls dress up as boys to get into a boys school to receive another clue to the treasure; as a distraction one of the characters gives the boys choir in the school a 'remix'. This makes me react in the ways that I said above. A clip of this scene is below.




Why would people consume the text: People would consume this text because it would give them comical relief and a break from the normal comedy set ups that are out and popular right now.

Could some people react to the text differently? How?: Some people could react to this differently if they don't have the humor that is portrayed in the films. Also, if somebody is easily offended they wouldn't find it as entertaining as others as it does go over the line at times to add the a comedic value.