1. Genre Research
Joe Clark

2. Initial Research
• Comedy is a genre which is used in films with the main
emphasis of the film being on creating humour and enjoyment
from the film.
• Comedy Films normally have happy endings to them.
• Some of the first films where silent movies which where
thought to be based on the comedy genre.
• Comedy films are normally based on one start character in the
film. With many famous comedians being introduced into
comedic films

3. D.I.S.T.I.N.C.T
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Setting
Technical
Iconography
Narrative
Characterisation
Themes

4. Conventions
• Setting
• Dependent on the type of comedy.
• Generic places: Bright places, Towns, Cities, Well populated areas.
• Teen Comedy: High schools, Small towns.
• Social comedy: Homes, Bras.

5. Technical Code
• The camera movement is very natural and follows the
characters. A lot of high shots are used at the start of the new
scenes to help establish the setting of the scene.
• Medium shots are used to capture the characters expressions.
• Editing sounds help makes humour and add effect at the same
time, old sounds are used in the modern movies to add
hysterical and irony to the films for older generations.
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6. Iconography
• Bright colours are used to generate a positive and happy
atmosphere.
• Lighting is often bright once again to generate a positive effect
to the scene, shot during day time.
• Props which are used for comedy scenes would be props that
would be able to be used for comedy uses, for example:
footballs, golf clubs which have a high chance of comedy uses.

7. Examples Of Props being Used

8. Types Of Comedy
• Anecdotes
• Blend Words
• Blunder
• Black Humour
• Caricature
• Conundrum
• Farce
• Irony
• Nonsensism
• Practical Comedy
• Roasting
• Satire
• Stand Up
• Banter
• Blue Humour
• Burlesque
• Comedia dell’arte
• Catch Tale
• Freudian Slip
• Gallows Humour
• Melodrama
• Parody
• Recovery
• Switching
• Seri comedy
• Sitcom

9. Character Types
• Not very smart, idiots, accident prone.
• Smart people, socially awkward.
• Regular people, accidents happen around them. Very sarcastic
and can be contradicting.
• The Lovable Loser – sarcastic, optimistic, needy, impulsive
• The Neurotic – awkward, nervous, controlling, worried
• The Dumb One – friendly, naïve, gullible, no ulterior motive
• The Bitch/Bastard – mean, insensitive, insecure, doesn’t
apologize
• The Womanizer/Manizer – charming, seductive, horny,
superficial
• The Materialistic One – judgmental, entitled, spoiled
• In Their Own Universe – odd, eccentric, uses illogical logic