Codes and conventions of comedy and thriller genres

This is a powerpoint which is comparing the two genres our film will be either categorised as. Our group had to decide between either a comedy or thriller genre. We had to do research into both of them to help us decide what the best option was for us. The information includes all the different things you need to make a comedy or thriller film.

 

What I have learnt by doing this research is that there are many different codes and conventions for each genre and unless you research the different genres you dont realise how different they actually are. After doing all our research we decided to choose to do a thriller film. The reasons being to make it more interesting and there is a lot more things you can do with a thriller film but with a comedy film it can be limited because it has to be funny and it can be quite hard to think of funny things to keep the audience interested and to keep them watching.

Preliminary task

The video below is my groups first try at doing match on actions which was our preliminary task. The preliminary task consisted of having to be a character walking through a door and sitting opposite another character. The video is from Brooks vimeo account who is in my group. The reason why it is from his vimeo account is because he was the one that uploaded the video on vimeo even though we did all work together doing our first match on actions.

practice film from Brook McGechie on Vimeo.

What I have learnt by doing match on actions for the first time is that it has to be very accurate and you have to concentrate so you dont get confused on what match on action your doing and at what point. If you do get confused you have to start again because it wont work and it wont be a smooth sequence to keep the audience intrigued in your film and they will loose interest in the film. I have also learnt from doing match on actions for the first time is making sure you dont break the 180 degree rule this is because of the audience getting confused because the character will be in a different place of the setting from when you have started which will make the audience confused and unsettled.