Dil To Pagal Hai

Techniques Used

• Begins in clear studio setting with bright light behind setting this bit up as something different from reality - introducing us to the characters and their utterly opposite beliefs
• Cuts out to reveal them sitting on yellow benches - benches then occupied by loving couples for the duration of the title sequence
• Colour shifts completely from yellow to blue
• Jump Cuts in MS during musical number to show frustration between male and female dancer
• Cuts from her to him both doing a similar dance move though in different places
• A shot in which there are two versions of the couple showing the different sides of their relationship; lovers and friends
• Pooja's flash back is illustrated by her turning and an OTS revealing why she must be dutiful to her aunt

Steve Neale's Genre Theory

• Genres are instances of repetition and difference
• Mere repetition would not attract the audience
• genre is a set of expectations
• genres are not systems they are processes-they are dynamic and change over time

How we used in our music video production:

• Followed some conventions: acoustic guitar music, bird iconography
• Broke conventions with our representation: female protagonist, Asian helper
• Number of female protagonists in coming of age genre is increasing - changing over time
• This change however is not specific to our genre but to most
• Audiences expect romance - Coming of Age drama has a strong element of teenage relationships so to exclude this would be to disappoint our audience

Coming of Age Dramas as a Genre

Matthew P Schmidt - Coming of Age in American Cinema: Modern Youth films as a genre

• Contain characteristics of the novelistic Bildungsroman and its modern literary variants, the childhood initiation tale and the coming-of-age or the rites-of-passage story
• includes not only teen entertainments but also social problem films and more personal, quasi-autobiographical works
• dramatize situations and events that bear upon the child's initiation into new domains of psychosocial experience and the adolescent's and postadolescent's encounters with the pleasures and perils of modern life

Robert McKee - Story
Part of Maturation plot

Norman Friedman

Plots of Character — in which the narrative’s protagonist undergoes a change of moral character.

• The Maturing Plot — The classic coming-of-age tale in which the protagonist passes into adulthood, either literally or on some figurative level. Examples include Sixteen Candles, Stand by Me, and Almost Famous.

Kate Erbland

• high school hijinks
• making own family/accepting your family
• falling in love for first time
• social outliers
• popular people having hidden depths

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• popular vs unpopular
• apprehension of future
• change from school to university
• world weariness

Aaron Weiss

• looking for acceptance
• rite of passage

Dusty McGowan

• Underdog
• Dreamgirl
• Older mentor
• quirky characters
• unexpected moments