Comedy presentation

CMEDY

By Mark G and Conor N

The Inbetweeners Movie

• Directed by Ben Palmer the inbetweeners movie was released in August 2011 the film is about 4 6th formers who go abroad on a lads holiday and end up in awkward situations and they end up with girlfriends.

The Hangover

• Directed by Todd Phillips and released in June 2009 the storyline of this movie is 4 men who go to Las Vegas on a stag night and get drugged and forget the whole night and spend the next day trying to find out what happened.

Superbad

• Directed by Greg Mottola, and was released on the 14th of September 2007. Superbad is about two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes wrong and they have to get booze and get to the party.

Stars

• Stars are what draw viewers to see films, if a certain popular film star is a peoples favourite then there more chance of them going to see a film with the star acting in it.

Star Theory

• Star theory is the theory that fans will go to see certain movies due to who is acting in them, for example people will go to see the film The Expendables (2010 – Sylvester Stallone).

Storyline• Storylines are the main reason why film audiences

goes to the cinemas, this is one of the main factors that draw us to different films.

• Storylines don't always have to play from start to end, sometimes a film can start at the end and show what happened to get to this, this is called using a non linear storyline so a storyline which starts at the beginning and finishes at the end is a linear storyline.

Special Effects• Special effects are what keep us not expecting to see

certain things in movies, these are what create certain characters by using such things as CGI and animation, these equipment like Green Screens for this, for example the film Avatar (James Cameron – 2009) this shows remarkable use of CGI and special effects

Reception Theory• Reception Theory support the idea that meanings is

created in the interaction between spectator and text; in other words, meaning is created as the viewer watches and processes the film.

• Reception theory argues that contextual factors, more than textual ones, influence the spectator views the film or television programme.

What Makes Us Go And See Films• All of the above factors make us want to go and see films, for

the stars, star theory e.g. Hot Fuzz (2007 – Edgar Wright) stars people like Simon Pegg, for the buzz around the film and what its expected to be like, reception theory is used e.g. avatar (2009 – James Cameron) and for what the actual storyline is about using films like Rec (2007 – Jaume Balaguero) this didn't have any stars or much special effects but this did well due to the main storyline.