There are many advantages to genres one of them are that it sorts films into category's and makes films easier to choose. so if you like horror with a bit of comedy you would go the the genre of comedy/ horror or if you like a bit of like thriller you would go to thriller. over all it helps the audience choose a film that will be best suited to them and there liking. Also it gives the directors and producers and writers a rouge guide line to what is needed to make the film successful so say if they was doing a sci-fi they would know it would probably have to be set in the future and in space.
The disadvantages to a genre is there are strict guidelines to what makes each genre and if you make a error in judgment it can bring the entire film down.
The genre we have chosen for our film is comedy/horror the conventions for this type of film would be that it has horror events such as stabbings and murders but it does them in a funny way so take for instance the opening on scary movie the villain stabs a girl in the heart but only to find his stabbed her implants which makes it funny. more conventions would be that the horror is a side genre where as the comedy is the main focus of this film.
Genre history:
Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is literary and film genre, combining elements of comedy and horror fiction. The comedy horror genre almost always inevitably crosses over with black comedy genre, and in some respects may be considered a subset of it.
The short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving is cited as "the first great comedy-horror story". The story made readers "laugh one moment and scream the next", and its premise was based on mischief typically found during the holiday Halloween.People who i think are important to "mimic " so to speak would be people like the director of scary movie Keenen Ivory Wayans as he has directed and stared in several movies and TV programmes In Living Color was one of the TV programmes he was in and directed. one of his other movies was White Chicks which also was a very successful film. I have a couple of ideas for actors for which i would like to take inspiration off people like Dave Sheridan who stared in scary movie as " special officer doofy" but also played the scream masked killer. also i would like to take inspiration from Jim Carrey as he has played many roles in many films but my personal pinion of him is that he is an amazing actor and defiantly excels as a comedian and one of his films that really stands out is Bruce Almighty as this film got him nominated for a number of awards because of this film and how brilliantly he acted in the film and that's why id like to image him the most.
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| Jim Carrey |
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| Keenen Ivory Wayans |
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| Dave Sheridan as the mask. |
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| Dave Sheridan |
I think that the film Scary Movie is a good example of my chosen genre because it is one of the most highest grossing film of the series. it has the genre of comedy/horror and it plays it really well as the story line is that a group of teenagers killed a man last Halloween with the line "I know what you did last Halloween" I think that this film is a good example of my genre as every one knows what scary movie is and every has heard of it. I think it blends comedy with horror very well and i think that it is one of the best horror comedy films going. this movie has all the conventions of a comedy horror as it has a man in a scary costume stabbings and people running away. but it does them all in funny circumstances.
Scary Movie - (Keenen Ivory Wayans) - 2000
In Living Color (Keenen Ivory Wayans) - 1990
White Chicks (Keenen Ivory Wayans)- 2004
Bruce Almighty (Jim Carrey) - 2003
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