Genre Research

Before deciding to go further with our story idea, we decided to research into the comedy genre first in order for us to be more aware of what we need to include and avoid in our film in order for it to become a success.  We found that the main purpose of a comedy film is to amuse the audience and make them laugh. This genre deals with ridiculous and absurd aspects of human behaviour, where they are meant to make the audience feel good by providing them with laughter and a means of escape from life’s difficulties and hardship. They make things sound easier than they really are and therefore making us feel positive and more light-hearted. Comedies usually tend to end with happy-ending to leave the audience feeling positive in the end. They tend to be quite offensive in terms of racism and gender. Finally when doing this research we found that we had been successful in understanding the comedy genre through our final initial idea; where Sarah is in control of the teenage boy (her babysitter) and teaches him how to approach a girl. By the way she controls him, she makes him seem less experienced with girls and therefore desperate enough to ask a 10 year old girl for advice. The idea is ridiculous, embarrassing and humorous for the audience to watch, thus creating that comic effect.  In order for our film to have a happy ending we will make sure that Nabil and Lilly end up together in the end. This is because every comedy film has an ending that leaves the audience feeling positive and this is what we want to achieve at the end of our film.

Before writing our script we looked through a few rules that have to be met when writing a comedy short film: these are

Before writing our script we looked through a few rules that have to be met when writing a comedy short film: these are

·         Don’t overuse the same joke

·         Go into the storyline as well as the jokes. Don’t try and write jokes every second as the audience will then lose their connection with the character and the plot.

·         Comedy films are heavily based on hyperbole jokes, where the characters are over the top and their actions are obvious.

·         Make sure your jokes are delivered at an appropriate time and moment. Jokes are not funny when they are used in an inappropriate scene. 

·         Make sure you find your own comedy script funny and show it to your friends and family just to be sure.

       We will take these rules into account when writing our comedy script in order for it to be a success in making the audience laugh.