Case Study

Family Guy is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their talking pet dog Brian. The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, and exhibits much of its humor in the form of cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture. Family guy was aired in 1999, Family guy got its idea of witty comedy from South Park which was aired in 1997, both shows are similar in the way the imitate America in the TV shows.

  

 

 

PURPOSE, GENRE, FORM, STYLE, CONTENT, MEANING AND PRODUCTION PROCESS:  

 

Purpose:

Family guy is created by Seth macfarlane, the show gets produced by Fox Broadcasting company. Family guy is a American adult animated sitcom. Every episode of Family guy runs on average 25 minutes a show, including adverts in-between.

Throughout the show they make jokes and it tends to have a flash back or a cut away joke.

Genre:

Family guy is a animated sitcom in which is it a comedy about life to life things which get extended more than it should. They are lots of other animated sitcoms in TV for instance American Dad, Simpsons, King of the hill, with Family Guy they have a talking dog, which makes it whacky, American dad is pretty similar because they have a alien and a talking godfish.

The family has a talking dog and a talking baby which acts like an Adult the dad of the family acts like a child which is like the opposite of each other. The style of the show is a animated tv show which is 2D.

Form and Style:

The colours that are shown in the show are always bright colours which stand out to show the mood is good in the show and its a light and happy scene. This is a unrealistic show because of the wacky things that happen in it for instance there is a 10 minute scene in the show of Peter the dad having a fight with a talking chicken the size of the human and the fight goes on for ever, they fight more in future episodes. They have a talking dog and baby which go on adventures with the talking dog, it is obviously fake.

The show has a lot of gags, which range from sexism, terrorism to even abortion! With family guy you rather like it a lot or dislike it a lot.

Content:

The famous cast list of Family Guy are Seth Mcfarlan who plays Peter Griffin the dad,he also plays Brian the Dog and he also plays the voice of Stewie Griffin the boy, Mila Kunis who plays Meg Griffin the daughter of the family, Seth Green who plays Chris Griffin the son of the family and Alex Borstein who plays Louis Griffin the mother of the family.

Seth Macfarlan was originally the first person to write it but throughout the episodes he gets ideas from the team of writers who are behind family guy. Family guy comes in series, each series takes around 9 month to make on average according to one of the sources of the company.

Meaning:

Family guy is the same set of charecters every epsisode, theres the main ones which appear but the odd few appear in new episodes they rather stay or just appear in some more of the episode in the future. The duration is on average 25 minutes a episode depending on how short they cut it. They sometimes have a double episode which they carry on onto the next episode instead of it being one long episode. There is some special effects in the series because it is all animated.

Production Process:

Each trailer of a new series every year of family guy shows mini clips in of the best scenes of that series and try and make it more appealing for others to watch. They make it more whacky every year and use a lot more jokes. For instance in the trailer below they make it like Peter is getting all his gags ready for the jokes and use a lot of special animated effects in it. This is a trailer of season 12 of Family Guy which came out last September 2013. The trailer gives you a couple of views throughout the full series of the show, it shows the wacky comedy and entertainment family guy gives off. There isn't any music to set a vibe to the trailer, because in this trailer it just shows scenes from the full series. The trailer  tries its best to make the viewers laugh and catch there eye to make sure they watch it when it comes out.