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Codes and Conventions of Comedy
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Codes and Conventions of Comedy
Bright colours are also used, to show that it isn't meant to be taken seriously. These include anything from red to blue, but all colours have different connotations, so if a film maker wanted to show that a character is angry, they would use red. But if they were calm and relaxed, they would use blue. The lighting depends on the type of setting, but most of the time it is bright for the audience to see everything that is going on. If the setting was in something like a bar, however, the lighting may be dull to represent how the people in there are drinking to forget, or something similar.
The camera is placed wherever it is best to see the actors facial expressions from, which works well in a short film as little dialogue is used, so expressions and emotions are the main way of getting a characters feelings across. Sound effects are also added to create more humour, and when music is used with it no dialogue is needed at all. For example, 3x3 uses no dialogue but still allows us to get all the information through the characters facial expressions and the light-hearted music.
A lot of the time the characters are very mixed in their characteristics. An example of a character that is in almost every comedy film is "the idiot". The idiot does everything wrong and doesn't quite understand as much as the audience or other characters, and they're often accident prone to add an element of physical comedy. Another character is the normal one. This is the one that most of the audience can relate to, and always seems to know what's best for their group but is often outspoken, so that we can see how some ridiculous ideas pan out to add comedy.