For this week's story lab I chose to explore the TVtropes website. The writer described a trope as, 'a storytelling device or convention, a shortcut for describing
situations the storyteller can reasonably assume the audience will
recognize.' Comedy and Horror are my favorite genres, so i wanted to look at the tropes found in those stories. Coincidentally, there was a link that included both comedy and horror. The writers pointed out that movies/stories will use comedy in a scary entertainment to break the nervousness with a laugh. I have noticed this in a lot of books I have read. You have to keep the dominant genre more prominent or you risk ruining a scene or the entire story. If you kill of a character in a comedy, then you have to make it a humorous death or it won't make sense with the theme of your show/story. It was interesting to see how writers include tropes in their story and I bet this website could come in handy if you have writer's block!
Image Information: Comedic Horror, Web Source:
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Story Lab Web Source: TvTropes
Hello Jesica,
ReplyDeleteI was not aware of what "tropes" are but now I do and it makes sense. I read the article and it makes sense because most movies that have horror in it has a little bit of humor in it. Viewers do need "breathers" in the scary movies. I think horror tropes are more common than comedy ones because most comedies are straight up comedies.