Before working on the narrative of the coursework piece, the genre first needs to be decided upon. Here the pros and cons of the romantic comedy genre are looked at.
Advantages of Romantic Comedies
- Not dependent on special make up or costume
- Only a few actors are needed
- Can experiment with comedy
- Romance can be portrayed easily through body language eg. holding hands
- Sound effects are not necessarily needed just a non diegetic music track
Disadvantages of Romantic Comedies
- Actors need to be conventionally good looking
- Actors chosen need to pretend to have an intimate relationship with each other
- The comedy used may not be successful in making the audience laugh
- Predictable narrative
- Dependent on few actors
Overall as a group, we decided that although the romantic comedy genre would be quite interesting to do because it is a different genre to what we focused on in our AS coursework, we felt that we would be unable to push ourselves in areas such as editing and sound. Also we realised that finding the right type of actors for this genre would be very difficult. Therefore we have decided that we will not be focusing on the romantic comedy genre for our A2 coursework piece.
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