Bad Teacher

Bad teacher:

The genre of the film bad teacher is comedy. The film ‘Bad teacher’ is about a lazy teacher trying to marry someone rich. She has bad intentions throughout the whole trailer. There are many characteristics/ conventions that the audience are able to work out that the genre are a comedy. The four technical elements show the audience why it is a comedy.

The mise en sene of the film shows that Elizabeth (The main character) has had marries into a lot of money in the past in one of her previous relationships. Elizabeth also dresses well and formally, this shows the audience that she is out of place working in a school and that she feels as though she is too upper class to be associated with a school. Another character in the film is Amy, she dresses like a stereotypical teacher would. Elizabeth has her eye on a clearly wealthy member of staff at the school named Scoot as she is impressed by the expensive watch that he is wearing which catches her eye.  From this you are also able to work out that he will be her love interest in the film as her main priority will be to get him to fall in love with her.

In the trailer they have used non-diegetic music, the music they have used is upbeat and makes the trailer sound not serious and silly and immature which fits in well with the main character Elizabeth who is a bad teacher. The music very quickly changes when Lynn tells the main character Elizabeth that there is a bonus for the upcoming state test. The music then changes to motivational music but again it still has that silly aspect to it. This relates to the serious part of a comedy film. The shots that they have used throughout the trailer are very basic shots. They have used an establishing shot. They have also used a close up on Elizabeth so that the audience can see who the main character will be and so that they can see her personality and relate to that main character. This shot was also a good way to show the target audience her expression throughout the trailer. There are a few over the shoulder shots to show the audience who is talking while there is still some importance on the person who’s shoulder is in the shot for an example when Elizabeth is talking to the character Lynn, when Lynn is talking it is an over the shoulder shot and you can still see Elizabeth in the shot because she is the main character and the main focus of the film.

The audience are encouraged to ask themselves who is Elizabeth’s love interest going to be as you see her with two different men throughout the trailer and it is unclear which one it is she goes for. They are encouraged to ask themselves why she is a teacher if she doesn’t enjoy teaching. Why is she so money obsessed? Does she really want to find love or does she just want money?