First of all we researched the kind of narratives that one might see in a comedy action film.
Some include:
Wars, Gangs, sports, and police investigations.
These are the main narratives in an action comedy film.
Secondly, we looked at the settings.
The setting usually used in an action comedy consist of; War grounds, such as the jungle, Schools, streets, Bars, pubs and clubs.
We can incorporate this into our ideas, and maybe use some of these settings as a base of our film.
Next, the stock characters. These are the characters in the film that you either hate or love, and they are all mainly stereotypical.
The typical stock characters in an action comedy are: The stupid one, the smart one, the leader, the foolish one, the naive one, the seductive one, and the bad guy.
We will also use this research on the characters, in our planning, and filming to follow the genre of Action comedy correctly.
The main Iconography's of action comedy movies are;
Bad guys
Gun fights
Violence
Suits
Car chases
Explosions.
Yet again, we may incorporate these into our ideas, keeping to the genre as much as possible.
The audience for films such as these may vary, but they would mainly be of a teenage age, stretching out to middle aged. Maybe the more nerdy, sarcastic and in scene kind of audience may enjoy this film genre more than anyone else.
For the films that I have researched, I found these statistics, based on the
income of the film. These were ther results:
Tropic thunder - $188,039,665
Pulp Fiction - $213,928,762
Drillbit Taylor - $49,686,263
Snatch - $83,557,872
Action Comedy films use a wide range of editing techniques and shots, to create complex, funny and fast paced scenes. They dont stick to a few, they dont keep it simple, they make it complicated, but this makes the film more exciting for the audience.
The main techniques used are:
Fast pans, cuts, zooms, headshots, establishing shots, low angle shot, high angle shot, long shot, and mid-shot.
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