Case Study 2

I have chosen "21 Jump Street" for my second case study. 21 Jump Street is a 2012 action/comedy film. It was based on the television series in 1987.

• The film was directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller
• The film was produced by Stephen J Cannell, Neal H Moritz and Channing Tatum

Actors 

• Jonah Hill
• Brie Larson
• Dave Franco
• Rob Riggle 
• Ice Cube
• Channing Tatum

Cinematography: Barry Peterson
Editing: Joel Negrone
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Budget: $42 million

The release date was March 16th 2012 with a running time of 109 minutes, it was filmed in America.


Plot

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are former classmates that met at a police academy, They end up becoming friends at the academy as they help each others weaknesses , one having a physical weakness and the other having a mental weakness. Jonah Hill helps Channing Tatum with the theory for the police academy(written work) and Channing Tatum helps Jonah with his fitness. They then both graduated from the police academy and became partners but are assigned to park patrol. After few hours of park patrol they finally catch a break with a group of men smoking marijuana, they arrested the leader but had to let him go because Channing Tatum  forgot the wording of the Miranda rights. The two are reassigned to a revived speciality division on 21 Jump Street.


Main Similarities

• They are both a drama
• They both have the same target audience (teens and young adults)
• Both story lines are based around young adults
• Both have violent imagery and drug abuse 

Main Differences

• The budget for 21 Jump Street is higher than Ill Manors
• They both have different genres
• Both films are in different countries 
• 21 Jump Street had better filming quality

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The trailer is produced in high-key lighting this connotes that the film is going to be happy and maybe humerus, the mise en scene of the characters clothing insinuates that the film is based in a modern time. There are also scenes shown of the charters in police informs this makes the audience think that the genre of the film is an action movie. I noticed that the trailer showed the audience that the film uses synergy for the genres as it had fast shots of humerus and funny scenes. There was some swearing said by the actors in the trailer this connotes that the age of the film will be around a 15 and above, however there was also scenes showing sexual tention between characters this also connotes that the film will be above the age of 15.