basic idea – landlord comes to tell tenant that the rent is overdue, tenant tries hard to avoid the landlord seeing him.

shot pacing very important in comedy, additionally its very important to have a significant visual comedic style for example i will be taking inspiration from Edgar Wright. specifically the way things enter and leave the frame in funny ways and matching scene transitions. This helps comedy from being purely sound based – dialogue and helps it to be seen in the performance of characters – physical comedy, and the way the audience sees the scene: as if we can see straight through the scheme that’s fooling a specific character but its funny to watch it confuse them.

For example: the landlord knocks on the door and the tenants friend who stayed the night since yesterdays party opens up with the tenant still asleep in the lounge. The landlord asks to see the tenant however the friend takes it upon himself to distract the landlord so the friend can escape, the camera can see the tenant run past the door from one side of the frame to the other in a comedic way – the landlord clearly sees him but before he can complain the friend distracts him again. The landlord demands to be let in so the camera pans inside to see the friend quickly hide the friend in a funny way, this carries on. It is funny because the camera – the audience’s point of view, sees right through their scheme but the landlord is getting very confused, this is much more funny than just a shot, reverse shot of dialogue.