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Genre Analysis - Police Fiction and ComedyGeneral details:Generally speaking in Police films, you follow the life of the Police officers as opposed to the criminals, however in cases it is the other way around. In most Police films the storyline centres around a main story, plot or case with other side stories surrounding it. For example, in ‘22 Jump Street’ the main plot is for the two Officers to catch a drug supplier, but throughout the film they meet new people, do other things and other events are added in. That us the aim for what my film would lead into, having the three officers as friends and their job as the main story, but with other events happening around them.

Audience:The audience for Police fiction and comedy films are, in most cases, young people from around 15 years old to about 50 years old depending or not on the rating of the film (12, 15, 18 etc.). Generally anyone older than 50 watched less action/Police films and calmer, romantic and drama films. The race of audience is not really affected by Police films, but if it is then potentially people of a black ethnicity may be more likely to watch a Police film if the criminal is black and the officers are white. This is to see if the presentation of the criminal differs because he/she is black. The same applies to white ethnicity audience if the criminal is white and the officers, black. For the majority of cases, the audience ethnicity is not affected by Police films, especially not when they are less serious, comedic films like mine would be. Young people enjoys the comedic elements as well as the action scenes so when talking about Police films with both of those elements, it is almost always young adolescences who watch these films.

Content:People expect Police films to contain plenty of action, car/foot chases and potentially gun fights. However, the mainly applies to predominantly action based police films, as opposed to comedy based police films. In a film like ‘22 Jump Street’ or ‘Let’s be Cops’ although there are gun fights and action sequences, the main appeal behind them is the comedy involved. Alternately, there are films like ‘End of Watch’ by where is realistic, hardened affect is intended on the audience and the film contains a small amount of comedy, but the main idea behind it is the relationship between the two officers and how difficult their job can sometimes be. Although some of the differences between these films may be obvious, in most, if not all of them, there is a back story about the officers involved.

Actors:In most successful Police films, as with any other genre of film, the actors are, in most cases, recognisable or successful and therefore the audience will recognise them. People are more likely to watch the film if it has Hollywood actors and actresses in it. This is down to the fact that either people have specific actors/actresses that they like or that films are more likely to be good when there is a Hollywood actor/actress in it playing a big role. Content and Actors play an equal role in whether or not people go to watch a film. People got to watch a film because of what it is about just

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as much as they watch it because of who the actors/actresses are. Certain actors are usually associated with a certain film or film series.