The Relationship between audiences and films

 

22 Jump Street

 

My pre- post viewing of this film were quite mixed as I had watched the first film '21 Jump Street' which I was extremely pleased in watching as I found it very humourous. When I heard that a second film was coming out I was exited for it but after hearing the reviews of the film being quite poor then it lowered my expectations of the film. When I went to go watch the film I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would have because of the bad reviews lowering my expectations. Social networking sites like twitter, facebook, instagram and snapchat with friends saying how disappointed they were after the film were the biggest part to me having not as high hopes as I first did.

 

The reason I set out to watch 22 Jump Street is because of my fandom towards the first film, I contributed to this by telling others to watch it after I had and by sharing trailers from youtube onto other social networking sites. Pleasure can be brought to the viewer by scares, crying, reaching the viewer emotionally, sex appeal/ arousal but in this film it brings primaraly laughter as this is a comedy film.

 

It's hard to actively spectate this film as it doesn't seem like there are any hidden meanings to this film as it's pretty straight forward inm narrative, genres such as action-comedy films are usually without any parts of the narrative that makes the viewer think after they've seen it. Films like this are known as "easy watching".

 

Interactivity isn't really used in 22 jump street as I couldn't find any examples of how the viewers could have a say about any of the going ons in the film. The film makers preferred readings to the audience is to show the ups and downs of a friendship and how they come from two completely different backgrounds and how they have become such good friends. Another preferred reading in this film could be how to get through things in a partnership with all the troubles that come with relationships such as at work, friendships and relationships.

 

The audience could use frameworks of interpretation in this film as most people could have been through some of the same things the characters go through as they have to go to College in this film so some of the narrative could represent different life expirences they have been through. People who are very into their film could sometimes look for hidden meanings in films and sometimes they would find some but most the time they find and deconstruct things that were never there. This could be seen in 22 Jump Street as in some parts of the film as Schmidt and Jenko act as if they're in a relationship, this is done in a humorous way but some viewers could see this as a sign that they are actually in a homosexual relationship. 

 

This film uses intertexuality quite a lot and they refer to the first film, the next film(s) and the original series, this is obviously done on purpose.They say and do things that give hints to a film after that one to be made and at the same time they mock themselves in a humorous way as they mention how next year they could end up moving to 23 Jump Street as a building is being sold there, this hints at the fact a third film could be added to the series.

 

The conditions of reception for this film will most likely be at the cinema, illegal download and streaming sites, services such as netflix and lovefilm plus dvd and bluray. At the moment this film is quite new as it has come out this year and is still playing at cinema so this will only be able to be found pirated or at the cinema as it won't be out for sale until later this year.

Using my media literacy I would rate this film very highly as the narrative comes across very clearly. All of the audio, cuts, soundtracks or any other editing done was to a great standard and I wouldn't be able to critisize them. The charcters develop a lot throughout the film (not as much as they did in the first) they grow in personality, Schmidt gets more confidence as he meets a girl and gets compfortable around her. Jenko meets a new friend and gets close to him and this brings him out of his shell and as this charcter is a lot like him he doesn't feel like he has to hide who he is around him as they have so much in common.