Comdey convetions

character types

• Almost always two main characters the 'clever' one, the one who always leads the way and is more important than the other one who is usually the less intelligent one and listens and follows what the lead one says.
• they sometimes don't have any sense,make silly mistakes.
• socially awkward,don't get on with parents or have problems with others.
• sarcastic,take risks,push others into doing things or are one of those people who get pushed into doing silly things by large crowds, victims to peer pressure.
• regular people,accidents occur and spill over into bigger situations.

Setting

• common places,in home town,well populated areas.
• teen comedy:take place in high schools e.g 21 jump street
• set somewhere the character is familiar with.

comedy movies usually are based around a dangerous situation or not so dangerous just has to be done under limited time and the outcome of them not completing it will affect them. jokes and gags will be very common along the way, sometimes something or someone will get attached to one character they would find it annoying and frightening but the audience will find it funny e.g in the comedy drama nacho libre one of the main characters has a scene where a woman chases him and tries to take him as she likes him,he is struck with fear whereas the audience will find that very humorous, so you can always expect something like that to happen to a character in a comedy film.

In the early days of the moving pictures everything was similar to a pie in the face, slip on a banana peel type humour.Then in the 30s you got the 'screwball comedies' which were more based on situation like most comedies today. the '60s brought in political humor. The 70's continued with more 'blue humor' and politicalhumor. The 80's brought in humor that was based around ages 15 to 24 i.e toilet humor involving nudity, drugs and swear words. This humor is still used today.humor that 10year olds also understand is used.