media analysis

media analysis of comedy
The comedy I’ve chosen to analyse is anchorman which is a comedy about a famous news reader called Ron Burgundy who is loved by everyone. It is set in the 1970’s and he has all of the views of an average man in that time which includes the quite fascist views, which is the main funny point of the film as he deals with the first female news anchor working with him and his rigid views.
The first two minutes is an establishing shot that cranes into the home state of the main character Ron. whilst the camera cranes in there is a narration that gives us an idea of what sort of person Ron is and how the rest of the movie will follow, this narration is like a typical 70’s one and is made to sound like this. It then cuts to a collection of shots of Ron just talking to his colleges and practicing in front of the camera. This also shows us how he is and what type of person he is which will let you get to know his character a little bit better. It is also an excuse to show the audience the theme of the movie and also helps to show that it is set in the 70’s with the fashion of the people and the look of the set. The camera angles are all just straight on at the main character which suggests simplicity which is the idea of the movie, also as it is a comedy it doesn’t really require many creative camera views, and doesn’t really have a lot of varying editing transitions other than jump shots.