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Period 1: Aliezza Gungab, Ginny Huang, Debra Lasisi, Joshua Quarles. Genre: Comedy 1980’s - Present. History of Comedy. Silent films relied on visual actions and physical humors It was until 1912 comedy started to emerge
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Period 1: Aliezza Gungab, Ginny Huang, Debra Lasisi, Joshua Quarles Genre: Comedy1980’s - Present
History of Comedy • Silent films relied on visual actions and physical humors • It was until 1912 comedy started to emerge • Mack Sennett form Keystone Company to produce slapstick and comic characters
Conventions of Comedy Usually characters are happy or exaggerate their specific role. The plot is pretty basic and is designed to make the audience laugh and the underlying message is usually friendship.
Iconography of Comedy • Lighting: High key lighting, natural light • Props: Masks, wigs, random surrounding objects • Teen Comedy Props: latest technology, cell phones, and cars
Look and Style of Comedy • Added sound effect to emphasise an event or action • Natural lighting, or fill light • close ups, midshots, longshots • At times, slow motion/ fast motion takes effect in emphasizing actions
Elements of Comedy • mistaken identity • coincidence • surprise • Exaggeration • Names • Violence • Language • double entendre • Puns • Drunkenness • irony
Setting in Comedy • Typically in suburban areas, high schools, or sunny towns • Generally comedy films can be taken anywhere. • Where the film takes place may have a big effect on the film.
Character types in Comedy In General, the characters include -the funny one -the not so funny one (makes the funny character seem even more funnier) -crazy person -The one who’s always up for a good time Teen Comedy: Cheerleaders, new kid, nerd, average girl/boy, band geek
Costumes in Comedy .Exaggerations in costume .Color .Repetition
Values and Themes in Comedy • Comedies mostly have a happy ending • otherwise, it wouldn’t be a comedy • Comedies w/o happy endings are called black comedies • ends with taboo subjects, such as sex or violence • Themes • good vs bad • family values • finding of one’s self • friendship • freedom • coming of age
Key People • Mack Sennett- director/actor • Charlie Chaplin- Silent Movie Icon • Mel Brooks- Director • John Hughes • Adam Sandler-actor • Will Farrell-actor • Jim Carey-actor • Tina Fey- screen writer, actor, comedian
Economy in 1980’s-Present Reaganomics Early Recession
Technology in 1980’s-Present Sony introduced digital camera technology Audiences began watching movies on VCR George Lucas launched THX Ltd sound system Animated films regained popularity with Lion King, Aladdin, and Toy Story in the 1990’s
Technology Continue CGI were beginning to enter the film indusrtries Cinemas transformed from film stock to digital which created more DVD’s and now Blu-Ray’s for better quality
Social in the 1980’s-Present Independent production companies began to produce non-mainstream films Blockbusters movies were highly popular ex: E.T., Star Wars Heyday of the teen movies ex: The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink
Culture in the 1980’s-Present It was the decade of “yuppie”, a baby boomer with college education, well-paying job, and expensive taste
Comedy in 1980’s - Present • Actors from Saturday Night Live introduced action comedy • Beverly Hill Cop from Eddie Murphy
Types of Comedies • Slapstick-physical actions and gestures • Deadpan-expression-less face • Verbal-subtle manipulation of language • Screwball-ridiculousness, craziness behavior • Black/Dark-sarcastic, humorous dealing with serious subjects • Parody- makes fun of serious types of films
Subgenres Blue Comedy- Rated R views, uses sexist, racist, homophobic views Character Comedy- develops from character roles Cringe Comedy- Comedy of embarrassment Improvisational Comedy- made up on the spot Observational Comedy- makes fun of everyday lives Spoof- recreation of a book/movie for humor
Textbook Questions Comedy is usually targeted to the working class Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton used slapstick comedy Harold Lloyd played the middle class characters in the silent-era Screwball comedy doesn’t combine high and low humor in a single film
Textbook Questions Cont. Pressure from Catholic church contributed strict censorship codes in the late 1930’s for screwball comedies
Resource http://www.filmsite.org/comedyfilms2.html http://daniellepageasmedia.blogspot.com/2013/02/genre-and-conventions-of-comedy.html https://sites.google.com/a/vcstudent.org/filmgenre/drama-movie-themes/theme http://www.brooks.edu/Student-Life/Brooks-Blog/June-2013/How-1970s-And-1980s-Film-Innovation-Is-Still-Impacting-The-Industry-Today http://www.filmbug.com/dictionary/moviehistory.php