comedy/sitcoms

                 Comedy

ith comedy's there is normally a typical family and is near to real life as possible for example my family or the Inbetweeners. They are always closed narrative and normally overcome a problem. Within over coming the problem is the comedy stems from. A sitcom is a situation comedy and normally deals with real life situations.

There are many different types of comedy for example gross out comedy, social comedy, romantic comedy and teen comedy. With each one of these comes with a different set of codes and conventions, like the language; the representation; the audience and the institutions.

With a teen comedy like the Inbetweeners the introduction is very lively and really fast paste.  Within the first minute of the shot you get a montage of things that have happened throughout his days of high school. The lighting is high key to make the audience feel like it’s real life and also so that the audience can relate to the characters.

Within the show there is a lot of non-diegetic sounds like the music after each scene has finished. Also there is noises in the background, this is to enhance the realism in the show. Non-diegetic sounds are what come from the outside of the narrative structure.

In the Inbetweeners they over come a problem, for example the one at the xmas party, when Will has to organise the party. He overcomes the problem by doing a good party, but then right at the end the reflex on what they did and what’s going to happen next term. The narrative structure in comedies is normally a linear narrative. This is so that the audience knows what’s happening. 

In sketch comedies they are fast paste and short clips of the characters doing their own clips.  With fool Britaina for example they introduce the character and is just the one guy doing different clips. The lighting within the show is high key to make it look natural and realistic to the viewers. The sound in the show is a non-diegetic with the narrator speaking. But then there is diegetic sounds when they are speaking. The editing in fool Britannia is really fast paste and as soon as one clip finishes there is a narrator at the end with a non-diegetic sound and then cuts to the next clip.