How can film techniques be employed to attract more audience in comedy, especially farce?

After my research in MA, I got a conclusion about my research question.

1. The technique level.
I can increase some part’s of film technique level.

2. Film market and fashion trend.
the interesting of people are totally different, some people like dark color level, some people like Rock, so, the fashion trend and the film market is very important, the proper useful about film market and fashion trend in a comedy film, it can attractive more audience.

3. The right part

Film is closely related to kinds of audience, show the right part to each kinds of audience, like my practice in MA, it will get good reaction.

[A good Newspaper I have read]----The New York Times(4)

As soon as I saw the title I thought, I know what positive affect means, and nothing good can come of this. You already know how these studies are going to turn out. All the happy people will be healthier, live longer and have more sex than the unhappy people. That's why they're happy.

Or the other way round, which means that you, too -- you unhappy masses huddled under comforters watching old movies and eating the wrong things instead of exercising with good friends before a vegan dinner and a night at some soul-enriching cultural event -- you too, could be healthier and live longer and have more sex. If you would only cheer up.

Dr. Andrew Steptoe, Dr. Jane Wardle and Dr. Michael Marmot, of University College London, review some of the previous affirmations of the value of being affirmative at the beginning of their paper.

To wit: Negative affect is associated with a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes and disability. Positive affect, as judged by writings of nuns at age 22, is connected to greater longevity -- for the nuns. Happy Finns live longer -- than unhappy Finns. Even worse, ''A lack of positive affect rather than negative affect predicts mortality, stroke and the development of disability in older adults.''

You don't even have to be depressed to fare worse; a lack of happiness will wreck your golden years. Let a smile be your umbrella -- or else.

The English researchers continued in this vein. They considered that unhappiness could lead to an unhealthy lifestyle, or that the two could be linked in basic physiological processes. They don't actually pin down cause and effect, but they do say that they are looking at ways ''psychosocial factors stimulate biological systems.''

To investigate these connections, they asked 116 men and 100 women to record how happy they felt at given times during the day. They also tested blood pressure and heart rate, and cortisol levels in saliva. Cortisol is a stress hormone, so the less the better in terms of all sorts of health problems, the researchers say.(2005)

from: <The New York Times>

An Questionnaire of

This is an questionnaire of my MA practice--<Good Night>

These films are: 

And

1. What is your gender?
2. How old are you?
3. Do you like comedy film?
4. Which elements would you prefer in comedy film?
5. Do you think that farce(闹剧) is more attractive to you than other comedy forms?
6. In your opinion, what/which part(s) are/is the most attractive to you in the <Good Night>?
7. What do you think needs to be improved in the <Good Night>? 
8. About <good night>, which end do you like better?
9. About the ending you prefer in <good night>, what element or technique do you think to attract you more?
10. Do you think it is possible that using film techniques could improve comedy effective?

[A good Newspaper I have read]----The New York Times(3)

SIDE EFFECTS; Laugh Your Way to Good Health and a Longer Life

By JAMES GORMAN

Published: April 19, 2005

''Laughing turns to crying.''

That's what my grandmother used to say when kids got too excited. I guess the idea was if you had too much fun, something bad would happen. Run around the house and you'll fall down. Get giddy on a trampoline, someone will end up in a cast.

This was in line with her other pronouncements. Go out with wet hair you'll get pneumonia. Don't wear rubbers on your shoes, you'll get rheumatic fever. Have too much fun, and someone will get irritated and say, ''Laughing turns to crying.''

It just occurred to me in the last day or so that maybe she was wrong. I'm quite late on this because I've had to overcome my distaste for happiness studies.

It happened when I was reading a study that's being published today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It's called ''Positive affect and health-related neuroendocrine, cardiovascular and inflammatory processes.''(2005)

from: <The New York Times>

[A good Newspaper I have read]----The New York Times(2)

In ''Victor/Victoria'' it's men dressed like women, women dressed like men, mistaken identities, barroom brawls, assignations interrupted, stools that collapse on cue, a thumb caught in a closet door and, later, the same thumb, wrapped in a large bandage, slammed with a hammer. It's also about an innocence that no one within the farce would ever for a minute recognize. The characters in ''Victor/Victoria'' don't have time for such analyses - they're too busy working on schemes that will inevitably go wildly, unexpectedly wrong.

It's no accident that the ''Pink Panther'' films, ''10,'' and ''S.O.B.'' are all the work of Blake Edwards, the foremost farceur in films today, whose latest comedy, ''Victor/Victoria,'' is the most stylish and consistently lunatic movie he has done to date. Mr. Edwards doesn't have much competition. Good film farces have become only slightly less rare than high-toned dramas in blank verse.

Almost all of Woody Allen's films have farcical moments, but none of his recent films has exercised the prerogatives of farce displayed in ''Take the Money and Run,'' ''Bananas'' and ''Sleeper.'' Mel Brooks is capable of farce (''The History of the World - Part One'') but he seems to prefer parody and satire. ''Airplane!'' is one of the funniest comedies made in the last 10 years, though it's less a farce than a gargantuan parody. Steve Gordon's ''Arthur'' is a screwball comedy, updated.(1982)

from: <The New York Times>

[A good Newspaper I have read]----Chinadaily

The famous comedy actor in China—Zheng Xu said that the theme under the comedy face is very important, cannot aim to funny, otherwise, it will be a farce film.(China daily, 2012)

He's a strong believer that laughter is the key to world peace. "It sounds cliched and cheesy but I think once we learn to laugh at ourselves, we're going to get along with everyone else," he adds.(China daily, 2012)


 the China director—Jing Shang said in interview ‘The overstate way about technique of expression in my own film, farce is not bad.’(2012)

[A good Newspaper I have read]----The New York Times(1)

Farce is difficult to pin down. ''The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary'' says simply that it's ''a dramatic work (usually short) intended only to excite laughter,'' and ''The Oxford Companion to the Theatre'' defines it as ''an extreme form of comedy in which laughter is raised at the expense of probability, particularly by horseplay and bodily assault.''

Whatever farce is, its nature is such that all sober definitions automatically contradict the essence of something that is too buoyant, too breathless and too volatile to be contained by mere words. The best one can do is describe it.

It's Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau, in one of his ''Pink Panther'' films, being blessedly unaware that the putty nose by which he's disguised himself is melting over his upper lip. It's Dudley Moore, in ''10,'' hiding in a large floral display in a church during a wedding ceremony, being stung by a bee. It's Richard Mulligan, as the suicidal movie producer in ''S.O.B.,'' attempting to hang himself on the second floor of his house, only to have the rope snap so that he crashes through to the first floor, to maim severely the Hollywood gossip columnist standing in his line of fall.(1982)

from: <The New York Times>

[A good book I have read]----Film Comedy(2)

from: By Geoff King, Film Comedy

Summary Document (Draft)---Part 4

According to further research about comedy, I become interested farce, after I investigate about the comedy style, I found that farce is a very pure and basic comedy style, the pure comedy elements can bring the pure laughter to audience, and it could release pressure in max level. My investigation shows that film techniques are able to make the comedy more effective. This work is my result of the investigation. In this work, I put the full techniques, different editing style and expression style.

According studying in the whole year, I have a depth understanding about comedy, film techniques and the relationships between them.

My Talking Head's Draft(Part 3)

According to further research about comedy, i become interested farce, after i investigate about the comedy style, i found that farce is a very pure and basic comedy style, the pure comedy elements can bring the pure laughter to audience, and it could release pressure in max level. my investigation shows that film techniques are able to make the comedy more effective. this work is my result of the investigation. in this work, i put the full techniques, different editing style and expression style.

so this is my research in this  academic year, thank you for watching!