This document provides examples of different comedy film genres and concepts for comedy trailers. It lists common romance comedy, sitcom, animation, cringe comedy, spoof, and sketch film titles. It then discusses props, costumes, character types, and common comedy settings that could be depicted. Finally, it proposes two potential comedy storyline ideas - one about young men maturing from school bullies and the other about friends who time travel and alter history.

1. Production
concepts
COMEDY TRAILERS

2. Comedy film Titles
 Rom-Com - Love Actually, You’ve got mail, Hitch,
Shaun of the Dead, the wedding singer
 Sitcom- Alan Partridge Alpha Papa, the
inbetweeners, Mr beans Holiday, porridge
 Animation- the Simpsons movie, wreck it ralph, the
Flintstones , Garfield , space Jam, Shrek
 Cringe comedy- the 40 year old virgin , Borat, Bruno,
bridesmaids, meet the parents
 Spoof- meet the Spartans, epic movie, superhero
movie, disaster movie, scary movie, Johnny English
 Sketch- lost reality , extreme movie, dirty movie,
movie

3. Props
 Regular to exaggerated settings, for example for
different types of film you may have a normal
house down a normal street or a extravagant
area.
 Costumes- these are usually just normal clothes as
seen in films such as the inbetweeners, however
the style and standard of clothes depend on
where the humour is coming from, for example in
the hangover the clothes are dirty and ripped.

4. People
 There would be a variety of characters which is
incredibly broad.
 Old people pretending to be young again as
seen in the film last vegas
 Young groups going on holidays or just their
school life such as the inbetweeners or role
models
 Middle age people in a crisis
 People of different ethnicities with situational
humour for example four lions

5. Setting
 City setting
 Abroad
 Home
 School
 Work

6. Possible storyline
 Set in a reasonably size town in Derbyshire, a
young group of friends go on a journey from
being the bullies and the face of there year in
school to going to work and being nobodies. It
shows the transformation and the maturity
change between four young men appreciating
what they were like and the journey to reconcile
what they have done
 Set in 1963, in boston America three friends find a
way to time travel and begin surfing through time
causing havoc on important historical events.
Things like stopping Hitler and taking over the
roman empire has changed the world they knew
before they left.