Hibana: Spark (Broadcast Critique Task 3)
13 QUESTION FOR HIBANA: SPARK 1. What are the conventions that make up the genre? This series is about a young Japanese comedian, Tokunaga that going through thick and thin in order to become a successful ‘ manzai’ with his partner, Yamashita. The genre convention for this series is repetitive because we could see most scene in this series are at the same place like Tokunaga’s home, the agency office, the playground and many more. 2. If the program appears to be a hybrid genre, what are the convention of the genre that have been combined to make it a hybrid? This series is a hybrid genre between drama and documentary with a little bit of comedy but the comedy scene in this series isn’t much compared to others. This series shows about the reality of a comedian that none of us know. People thought comedian is funny in or out of camera and it’s easy to find substance to make a comedy sketch. Reality...
