point 8- Comedy/Drama

The genre I have chosen to do is Comedy/Drama, like the film Juno. There are many other film under this genre, including Housebunny, Bad Teacher and 50 dates.

The typical structure of the storyline about whats happens in a comedy/drama, is that a problem arises around the beginning, and then the film will be about them trying to fix this problem, and everything will be going right until near the end of the film where something big will go wrong or bad, but the the ending is normally happy. For example in House bunny, she gets kicked out of the playboy mansion, and has no where to live. Fortunately she gets a job in a house at uni, and has to help the house get more pledges. The film goes on and she helps the house get more pledges and everything is gonig right, until something big goes wrong at the end, and she falls out with all the girls she lives with in the house, and they dont get their pledges. But, at the end everything turns out happy and they get their pledges. Comedy is added into this throughout the film, making you laugh whilst dramas are happening. The is normally some sort of romance that goes on between the main characters, which helps add to the humour sometimes, and also the drama builds up more.

Usually, the main character in a drama/comedy are girls, as film producers are aiming more for girls to watch is, but for example 50 first dates, the films has a boy and girl as the main characters.  The soundtracks used are more mainstream songs that everyone knows, and according to which part of the film, they will be appropriate for the storyline. For example in the trailer for Bad Teachers They play the well known song 'Beggin' by Madcon when she is doing a carwash for money. This song relates to te storyline because she is wanting money off people and the lyrics to the song is 'beggin, begging you'.

The lighting is natural of high key lighting, as the films are normally more happy than sad, because they are comical throughtout the film. In House Bunny, they use alot of pink colours, because the main character likes pink.