GENRE OF FILMS

EXAMPLES OF COMEDY

The Heat

Grown ups

Rat Run

Run fat Boy Run

Hot Fuzz

The Hangover

LITTLE BIT OF COMEDY

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour.

These films are designed to entertain the audience through amusement,

and often work by exaggerating characteristics of real life for humorous

effect.

Comedy is one of the oldest genres (silent films used often slap stick

comedy of grand gestures or fumy costumes)

Comedy is a base genre and can over lap in many other genres eg:

Comedy Horror, Tragi-comedy, Rom-Com .

Comedy has a vast set of codes and can introduce other genres to a

classic film remake which is called a parody.

TECHNICAL CODES

The camera angle goes along with characters,

filming is natural and uses high shots for a whole

scene.

CHICK FLICKS

Chick flicks are a modern genre (80’s) which has a

target audience of a mainly female market. The films

often involve a group of girls, an attractive male lead

and an unpopular girl getting her dream!

CODES

Verbal codes- dialect is an important aspect of a

chick flick, there are often funny quotes with sassy

tones. Eg “you can go shave your back now” (Mean

girls) The un-diegetic is important as the songs are

often “sexy” during a strut and or important scene.

The diegetic is usually laughing, slap stick sound

effects and gasps.

CODES

Technical- technical codes involve the camera

angles like a “Establish angle” often in school

grounds like a canteen or corridor. There are usually

slow motion clips usually in a strut or kiss.

CHICK FLICKS

Mean girls

A Cinderella story

Lizzie Maguire: The Movie

Freaky Friday

Material Girls

10 things I hate about you

HORROR

Horror is a classic genre when a camera was

invented people become obssessed with scaring

themselves! Monsters had been written for hundreds

of years and finally “The Haunted Castle” shown in

1896 started a craze still going strong over 100

years later!

CODES

Horror films are incredible to decode symbolic

codes “The Village” emphasizes the colour red. The

story plot states if there is red in the villages the

monsters will come! Not only are colours symbolic

but the location whether its have historic value or

more dramatic scenery.

CODES

Lighting “ dark lighting” or a contrast of “intense

light”

Camera angles “extreme close up” to intimate the

audience, to trap the viewers.

Jittering camera gives a home made and realistic

feel (shaky cam)