According to CNBC, an American broadcasting channel, 5 out of 'The 15 Most Profitable Movies of All Time' were comedy films, including Mrs Doubtfire, There’s Something About Mary, The Hangover, Home Alone and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. This information shows that comedy films are a popular, successful genre that targets a mass audience.
Why comedy is a great genre to choose:
- The history of comedy dates back to the 1800's, and has been a successful genre ever since
- It is difficult for comedy to appeal to a lot of people, but if it does, it can only make a turn for the better
- Most comedy films target mass audiences and are mainstream, resulting in a large profit and a high popularity rating
- Comedy is subjective, meaning one person may find something funny and another may not. But being a comedy, several types of humour can be written into the film to suit all preferences without confusing the audience on what genre the film is meant to be
Why we chose the comedy genre:
As a group, we all decided that we wanted to film the opening of a comedy. One of the main reasons we chose this genre is because it requires a lot of creativity and positive thinking, which each member in our group had a lot of. We wanted to create something clever and imaginative, while keeping a positive and uplifting atmosphere. We understood that making an opening to a comedy would be challenging, and were prepared to push ourselves to produce a product that successfully resembled such a popular and well-known genre.
We also wanted our ideas to be original and indifferent from our other classmates'. Several groups in our class decided to produce a film opening for a horror or drama, and we felt that if we could take our ideas in a completely opposite direction with a comedy opening, we would stand out from the crowd. We used this fresh approach to our advantage and threw all of our efforts into our coursework to prove that we could make a successful film opening by being original and choosing a genre outside of our comfort zone. It was this drive that propelled ourselves through the Preliminary task and into the G321 Film Opening task.
