Beyond a Joke, Beyond a Genre – Week 9
Things are coming together…
A lot of progress has been made this week and we have pieced together our script. On Monday, Chloe and Oscar committed to finalising the first two scenes, and the rest of us committed to writing a few scenes each which will play in the middle of the film.
When coming back together on Wednesday, Bradley asked the question, ‘what would you say your mode or style of comedy is?’, and I must admit, our answers were scattered. We have moments of parody but we do feel like our overall production is a genre hybridisation, Adventure/Action Comedy.. In Glyn White and John Mundy’s text, Laughing Matters: Understanding Film, Television, and Radio Comedy (2012, CH.6), they recognise that Genre Hybridisation is a complex term that is limited. The correct word to use should be UNlimited. The boundaries of what Genre Hybridisation is, is ever so changing, it depends on the genre, the narrative ect. Something that Bradley told us during class, which helped better my understanding, was to imagine a film like Scary Movie (2000) not having any comedic moments within the film, it would pretty much not exist or make sense. Now imagine a film like An American Werewolf in London (1981), if you were to remove the comedic moments, the film would still make sense and have its horror genre. Our film is similar. If we were to eliminate any comedic moments, we would still have an action spy film. I feel like I am really starting to understand more of what the term ‘Genre Hybridisation’ means and how to identify it.
Back to the group work, another thing that we wanted to do before the end of the week was share our schedules and availability for the weeks ahead. We want to get most of our filming done next week (week 10) which will allow us a lot of time for editing. It seems that we will be able to do most of our filming on Wednesday 15/05 and Sunday 19/05, and then we have extra availability on Monday 20/05 if we need to film more.
Here are all of the documents created this week:
OFFICIAL SCRIPT – room for edits
Reference:
- Mundy, J. & White, G. (2012), “Comedy and Genre Boundaries.” in Laughing Matters: Understanding Film, Television and Radio Comedy, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 130–148.