Research

A list of the videos I looked at;

• peep show
• Dead ringers
• Shameless
• The Inbetweeners
• the wrong door
• 2 pints of lager & a packet of crisps

Common Features

The common features of these videos is the subject, the humor and that they are all sitcoms, however with Dead Ringers and The Wrong Door there isn't as much as an emphasis on the plot, so you could watch only a few episodes of it and still understand the gist of what’s going on.

With Shameless, The Inbetweeners, Peep Show and 2 Pints of Larger And A Packet Of Crisps, they are sit-com's and you follow the characters throughout the episodes, each of these programs have had a minimum of 3 series.

Genre Overview

The genre overview of these is;

Comedy - there is a big emphasis on the different types of comedy, but all of these have this similar trait. Also they are all British produced. The genre of the different programs is also surrounding human life and all of the mishaps that go with it, this is then turned into something humorous, e.g. dark comedy.

Elements that I might borrow for my research examples

The elements that I might and probably will use/borrow for my research is;

2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps - I will use the location (in a pub) for my idea and where to film in.

Shameless - I would like to use the excessive amount of alcohol consumed, but only loosely in my video, to demonstrate the meaning to my video.

Dead ringers - Although dead ringers is a sketch show, the humor alone is more witty and intelligent, therefore I would like to use a similar style of comedy, however I want to steer clear of making fun out of public figures.

The inbetweeners - The Inbetweeners is about college students who are not legally able to drink and I don’t want to use that because that is not the point, but I would like to use the different scenarios idea, for example I would use the mishaps that they encounter and the scruples that they face as part of my video

Peep show - With peep show there is only a few ideas that I would use from it and that would be the way it is shot. So the audience is looking directly though the characters eye. I think that this would work very well for my video and I also like that way that you don’t actually see the character. I would like to use this idea in my video.