Its all coming together...

After many many days and dead ends we came finally came up with a genre!! It is going to be, what we call, a com dram, or in other words,  comedy and a drama. We decided on doing a comedy, but as we were researching characteristics of comedy films we found that there were subgroups of comedy.

First there is slapjack comedy, which is basically what they used to rely on old time silent films because it is visual action that causes the humor. For example, horseplay, pie in face, loss of clothing, people chases etc.… An example of predominantly slapjack comedy is the film It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad world. (1963).

There is also deadpan, verbal comedy, and screwball. Deadpan comedy is characterized as a very expressionless face. For example, Comic hero Buster Keaton. Verbal comedy is pretty self-explanatory because it is any dialogue that induces humor. There is also the screwball comedy, which is a sub-genre of romantic comedy films, was predominant from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. The word 'screwball' means craziness, eccentricity, ridiculousness, and just straight up odd behavior that makes us laugh.

There is also Black or Dark comedy as well as parodies and satires, however for our film those are very far off.  Based on the definitions of comedy films we decided to label our film as a Verbal comedy because of our voice over and using dialogue as our main source of humor.

Now we also decided on making our film a drama. A drama is characterized as a presentation of realistic characters in a realistic situation that are in conflict which themselves, others, or forces of nature. There are also a few different directions we can go with a drama film. One direction is a social problem drama, which is pretty explanatory. There are also mental illness films, alcoholism, youth and generational conflict, race and civil rights, and courtroom dramas. Based on this we have decided to make our film a social issue drama because our film more of deals with the character at fault with himself and just life in general.

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"Drama Films." An Award-winning, Unique Resource of Film Reference Material for Film Buffs and Others, with Reviews of Classic American-Hollywood Films, Academy Awards History, Film Posters. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Mar. 2017.

"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 19 Mar. 2017. Web. 19 Mar. 2017.