Main post 6- History of your chosen genre

The history of Comedy

I have embeded my Prezi presentation of the history of comedy below:



The link below shows a website which explains different aspects of the comedy genre:

http://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/genre/comedy

The comedy genre came about in 1895 when silent films where shown on television programmes. Of course because dialogue and speech was not present in these times, it was difficult for comedy elements to come across to the audience. It relied alot on slapstick and burlesque humour.

However, at time progressd on and technology was becoming much more advanced, between the 1930-50's, the silent film era was growing out of fashion and dialogue comedy was progressing with popularity. This type of comedy included things such as innuendo's, puns, paradies and sarcasm. This type of comedy in the 50's has in a few ways influenced our opening sequence production, for example we are going to be including subtle elements of sarcasm for when there is conflict between the two different personalities of the characters.

In the 1960's, the comedy however became more of a darker nature with it appearing in in more serious films such as spoofs. Films such as Monthy Python used surreal comedy which was when they has consecutive humorous scenes which did not link together well and had no logical progression in it. This has not in many ways shaped the way we are going to film our opening sequence simply because we have an order into which we are filming, if we had it in a no logical order this would not make sense to the viewer and cause confusion.

From looking through the history of the comedy genre, it is evident that most of the films in the 2000's are not as popular as those made in earlier generations. To back this view up I did some research about the top grossing comedy films and found that the only film made in the 2000's that made it within the top 10 was Meet The Fockers. The image below shows the comedy genre box office results (It should be noted that by 'comedy' this means the genre alone and not any sub-genres such as social comedy or romantic comedy):