Comedy... is a very vague genre as there is more than one type of comedy eg slapstick, black comedy, comedy horror, Rom-com and many more
. Obviously with all of these different types of comedy the primary purpose is to make you laugh, with many different secondary purposes. My favourite comedy films and arguably my favourite films of all time are Anchorman: the legend of Ron Burgundy and Superbad, these are both quite adult humour and are very rude in some places, which is often the case in the comedy genre. Film isn't the only place were comedy is but you also get live comedy (stand up) and T.V comedy which is not usually as rude as film. Comedy began along time ago and was around during Roman times and probably before that in the form of plays.
. Obviously with all of these different types of comedy the primary purpose is to make you laugh, with many different secondary purposes. My favourite comedy films and arguably my favourite films of all time are Anchorman: the legend of Ron Burgundy and Superbad, these are both quite adult humour and are very rude in some places, which is often the case in the comedy genre. Film isn't the only place were comedy is but you also get live comedy (stand up) and T.V comedy which is not usually as rude as film. Comedy began along time ago and was around during Roman times and probably before that in the form of plays. Horror... is made to make the viewers feel feer, terror and obviously horror. They often have the story about death and have a definite "baddy". Alot of horrors contain supernatural
l beings such as Demons and people who are possessed. The genre began in 1890-1900 with the early black and white films that were based on books such as "Frankenstein". Horror is now one of the fastest growing genres. A great example of a Horror/Thriller film is Paranormal Activity which is a low budget film made as a fake documentary about a haunting in a house, that is all shot on one hand held camera.Action... films are very fast tempo and fast flowing with lots of action scenes, they are usually very high budget with all the explosions and special effects. They are often the highest grossing films such as "James B
ond: Gold Finger" and "Mission impossible 4.0" which are films in a series of lots of other films, that's another trait of action films. It always contains a handsome male and beautiful female that he saves and they then fall in love.Romance... is a very popular genre that is based on Love. Of
ten Romance and Comedy are mixed together to make Rom-Com. They are highly emotional and based on true story's often and the main character is nearly always Leonardo DiCaprio for example "Romeo and Juliet" and "Titanic". Again this genre has been around for centuries. Gangster... movies are about criminals often in a Criminal Group/Gang hence the name Gangster. The gangs are often based
around the Italian Mafia and in particular notorious individuals such as Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. They are often shot in Dark colours and are sometimes even Black and White. Some great gangster films are "Scarface", "The Godfather" and "The Untouchables".Western... is a genre that is telling a story in the late 1900's in the
wild west of America. The Western started off as westerns, and eventually developed into cop films such as "Dirty Harry". They often show the views of honour and sacrifice for the greater good and later showing the brutality of the American West. It is about the problems faced with social and technological changes during the expansion to the West which is showed in the early "Cowboys and Indians"films.After looking at all these different genres and a couple more like Thriller and Fantasy we decided to make a film in the style a a 1950's Gangster film. We thought we would do it in Black and white to look authentic, the ideas we have are smokey poker room, silhouettes and a sinister sound track.
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