Genre Research Follow up - Chris Phillipou

For our short film project we have decided to combine embarrasing scenes with laughter, making it a cringe comedy, we have decided to create laughter/comedy through the use of products such as laxatives, which we feel will have an effect on the audience, and might want to make them turn away, especially in the lavatory scenes with the disturbing sound effects. This genre was influenced through a variety of films such as Dumb&Dumber and American Pie, in which they involve similar embarrasing scenes. The use of the laxatives will create embarrasment for one character (Arran) and laughter for the other characters as they will laugh at his expense, combining laughter and embarrasment.

These are the scenes I looked at for my comedy genre research.





he scene within the film Dumb&Dumber inspired us for our short film, this scene is about 5 minutes along, which also helped us make a whole 5 minute comedy film based on a similar scene. The disturbing noises of Harry relieving his bowel, is reminiscant of our film when Arran takes laxatives without knowing, and is left to fight the consequences.

Another film that inspired us with similar conventions was the scene involving Finch in American Pie (1999).