Genre Research : Jexi

      Another movie we chose for our genre is Jexi. This is a comedy based movie which features Phil, who is the main character of this movie and he has a major dependency issue -- he's addicted to his cellphone. He has no friends and his love life is nonexistent. Forced to upgrade to a new phone, Phil soon learns that the latest model comes with Jexi -- an artificial intelligence life coach, virtual assistant and cheerleader. With its help, he begins to get a real life but as he becomes less dependent on the phone, Jexi starts to morph into a tech nightmare that's determined to keep Phil all to itself. The phone assistant, Jexi starts overriding the phones control and starts ordering Phil to do actions or else the phone will act up and potentially embarrassed or ruins Phil’s reputation in public and his workplace. As the movie plays throughout, Phil starts getting more used to his phone as he sees that it not as bad as he thought since the phone got him promoted at his job and also helped him get his first girl’s number.

          My group really enjoyed this show as it not only funny but a lot of camera angles and editing techniques as used throughout the whole movie. Since the group project is focused on the opening of a movie, we watched the opening of Jexi multiple times as it was quite confusing at first since the opening of Jexi is just scenes of people walking around the streets, all staring at their cellphone so it got my group wondering what was the purpose of that other than the people in this movie is all addicted into their cellphone. However, as time passed, we gained a further understanding of the opening of Jexi, the purpose of the opening of Jexi was to show the audience and viewers that the main character is addicted to his cellphone and is not aware of his surrounding. This will eventually lead to the climax of the movie which is when Phil bumped into another person which caused him to break his phone and forced him into getting a new phone.

           The movie really starts getting more interesting as Phil receives his new phone and starts interacting with his new mobile assistant known as Jexi. My group wanted to use similar scenes from Jexi to create a humorous opening for our own movie. We wanted to make a opening such as a scene from Jexi where we will have one of our group member open a phone box to act like they just received a new phone and the phone will get activated and starts voicing commands to the group member. This will freak out the group member and we will have the group member screeching and running around the room which will set the viewers laughing. We thought this will be a very creative opening for our project because not only does it cause a sense of mystery as to what will happen throughout our movie but it will also set a good laugh seeing our members in fear and being clumsy.