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1. GENRE RESEARCH
TAIA GAYLE-MARTIN

2. CONVENTIONS
FANTASY
• Not realistic
• Often set in medieval world
• Involves mythical beings
• Religious aspects
COMEDY
• set in bright locations
• Naturalistic camerawork
• Clothing and colours are usually
bright
• Socially awkward,
clumsy/accident prone and
sarcastic characters
• Happy endings
• Explosion
• Gun Fights
• Chase Scenes
• Fist Fights
• Natural Disasters such as
(floods, tsunamis and tornado's)
• Destructive Crises
• Prison or Culprit escapes
• Blood
• A Victory
ACTION

3. The world of Warcraft
movie utilises CGI and the
audience of the game fans
to create a hugely
successful
movie. 171.7 million USD
box office and a 7.6 on
imdb.

4. RICK ALTMAN(COMEDY)
Semantic
• Characters are positive
• Locations are in social places
• Props add to comedy and usually cause
accidents
• Costume is casual
• Music is usually non diegetic (laugh track)
Syntactic
• Everything gets resolved in the end
• Disaster arises
• Todorov’s narrative theory
• Relationships develop
• Sarcasm is a comedy device

5. NARRATIVE THEORIES (AS THEY RELATE TO COMEDY)
Vladimir Propp
• The hero (seeking something)
• The Princess (seeks help from the hero)
• The donor (helps the hero on his quest)
As they relate to comedy
• JD in TV comedy Scrubs
• Romoana from Scott Pilgrim
• Turk in TV comedy Scrubs