Parody vs Sitcoms class blog (BRB 1 Due tonight)

2/28/19

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Class Notes

Dodgeball is a parody of the sports genre.

What conventions of sports films does Dodgeball parody?

Sports Genre

Inspirational Speeches

Sportscasters

Training montage

Underdogs always win

Belief

Love

Parody

Patches dodging a wrench (dirty man)

Pepper idiot

Short time, still struggling, Running in traffic

Impossible victories

Takes money $ Blindfolds

¨Get the girl¨

Tone

Sincere-Ironic

A you explore this genre….

How will we describe the genre more specifically

than Comedy?

What are the conventions of this genre? Does the text

approach the genre sincerely or ironically?

Sitcom-

Laugh track or live audience

Dumb husband, clever wife

Unlikely timing

Family setting-kitchen, living room, some bedrooms

Removed 4th wall

Family struggles

In class we watched two film clips, the first film clip was a sitcom.

The second film clip was a parody of a sitcom. The first film clip

had a man and wife bickering, after the wife left the room the husband

attempted to make himself a meal. While the husband was making a

meal his friend called and interrupted his cooking. When he is on

the phone a fire started in the kitchen. The camera angle gets the

husband walking outside and talking about the weather at the same time

the audience sees the fire expanding. After the man realizes he attempts to

fix the problem, though his solutions don´t put out the fire. Its only until

his wife comes down stairs and quickly puts out the fire. Then the wife just

looks at her husband with a smirk.

In the second film clip we watched in class the husband walks into the

kitchen and opens a beer on the counter. His wife walks in and asks if he

opened it on the table and he denies it. When she asks again he tells the

truth and the wife has a bizarre response to this. She tells him she loves

him and then the husband breaks the fourth wall and goes to talk to the

director. The director and the husband discusses the response the wife

should have said. The husband tells the director that she should tell him shes

leaving him. Then take the kids and leave the husband. These two examples

examine two different types of humor one being a sitcom and the other is a parody.

Another famous sitcom that has the same style of shooting as the first

example would be The French Prince of Bel-Air.

The sitcom has family struggles, laugh tracks, and a family setting house.

It is also shot the same way that the first example is shot with three cameras. (the first example being the sitcom film we saw in class with the house fire)

One camera looking at both people in the shot and two other cameras looking at the individual people in the shot.