What Geres of Music Should I Use?

When I see superheroes in the media, I notice that most of the main heroes have there own theme songs which play during their roles.
The genre of music for these themes vary depending on there personality or there role as a hero or villain.


The genres I recognize the most are, Hard Rock, Dubstep, Techno, Metal, and Dramatic Orchestral pieces.

Music

For a superhero comedy movie we'll need some music that sounds funnily overdramatic to poke fun at the original dramatic feel of superhero movies.
We will need to have some goofy or casual theme music for the main character to either represent his incompetence or his casual nature.


Since we can't use copyrighted music we will need to find some loyalty free music.


I know that the YouTube Audio Library has some good tunes in there so I'll start searching there.
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

COMEDY! - Cringe Comedy

The art of cringe comedy is when someone makes a joke of embarrassment or embarrasses themselves in order to get a laugh.

Stephen Merchant is good at this form of comedy as his comedy show "Hello Ladies" is an hour and a half of him cutting himself down which gets a big laugh.

COMEDY!

When it comes to comedy I really like over the top physical comedy and British verbal comedy.

My favourite forms of British comedy are in Simon Pegg movies directed by Edgar Wright, his editing style is quite unique and adds to the moment in is films.

I also think comedians are great examples of British comedy as their are a variety of different comedic styles to enjoy and they are all very effective.

COMEDY! - Anime's Physical Humour

When it comes to the physical humour in animated films and series its always super exaggerated.

For example in One Punch Man the hero trained so hard that his hair fell out.

On top of that he's had some very spectacular victories over monsters in the series.
For example; slapping a mosquito girl into a blood splatter, punching a giant in the face and uppercutting a beetle monster in a rush to get to a saturday sale.






The joke is that he's so sting he just puts no effort into dispatching these monsters, the site of him slapping a monster into a blood splatter or walking backwards at mach speed is just hilarious because of how silly it looks.

COMEDY! - Black Comedy

Black comedy is when a controversial subject matter or a sensitive topic is used for laugh, things like death, rape, sexuality, etc.

For example: Frankie Boyle is a Scottish comedian that pocks fun at very sensitive subjects like 9/11 or the Death of princess Diana. To most people they wouldn't dare touch these topics but Frankie takes the P out of them without hesitation.
We may not use subjects as sensitive as this but it may be incorporated because of how gutsy you need to be to tell these kind of jokes.

Another example of what uses black comedy well is an animated series called the Gregory Horror Show, this series is strangely a horror/comedy, an odd genre that it uses very well. This series relies mostly on psychological horror which it uses in its black comedy; blood, death, and pain are made light of a lot in this series and each of its characters are hilarious exaggerations of primal fears.
Judgement Boy is a character that represents the fear of consequences and funnily enough he is a living set of scales that asks you emotionally difficult questions with this gleeful smile across his face and proceeds to float away singing his annoying little song which made him a fan favourite because of how funny he is.

Location Scouting

At start we considered using a large area like Morden park or Nonsuch park for an early fight scene or even have the majority in these areas, but when we came up with the final idea and the main characters persona we decided to hold the opening in a house so that we could represent the characters sloth-like lifestyle.

We have also decided to have a couple of scenes on a roof for an establishing shot and maybe a scene to reveal the villain. For this I have a friend that lives in the Amen Corner block of flats, he has access to the roof so we can definitely use that.

Institutions Research

In my research of institutions I think that 20th Century Fox would distribute our movie, as they have a great line-up superhero and action movies:
Deadpool
Batman
The Mark of Zorro
Zorro The Gay Blade
2 Power Rangers Movies
Daredevil
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Elektra
Fantastic 4
and 7 X-men films

Another possibility would be Columbia Pictures as they have had some superhero movies and some good comedy movies:

Mr.Deeds
Spider Man
Spider Man 2
Spider Man 3
Bad Boys II
The Longest Yard
Ghost Rider
Big Daddy

Below is some points that Aidan has made:

Distributor

It is unlikely that our film would be distributed by a major American distributor; this small production would be unlikely to interest them. It is unlikely that a major cinema release would be possible; getting a film into cinemas is expensive and difficult, with the major American companies able to buy out most cinemas and push out low budget British production like ours. Therefore, our film would likely be distributed by a small, British company, possibly via an alternative medium.

An example of such a company would be ChannelFlip. ChannelFlip is a small but relatively well known company and YouTube network who, among other things, ran the YouTube channel The Multiverse until the summer of 2014 when they lost funding from YouTube. Many shows from this channel, such as Knighthood and Decoy, are continuing on different media platforms. ChannelFlip often works on small and experimental projects, such as Ashens and the Quest for the GameChild, providing funding and good connections to help production. They are known for "geek flavoured entertainment" such as fantasy, science fiction and superhero related comedy. This is the kind of company who would likely distribute our film.

Aiden brings up some good points here, even though Columbia and 20th Century Fox do have some similar movies in there lineup of films they are too big of a company to even consider funding and/or distributing our movie so we would most likely need to go with a production company who would be able to get our movie out there but be small enough to actually take our film on board.

Research for a superhero comedy

Research for a superhero comedy

Group: Josh and Aidan

I chose comedy because I thought it would be easier to film as there isn't as much choreography as in action movies but we need to make sure its funny otherwise the movie would be a bust.

 For reference I've watched a lot of Simon Pegg movies as he is the funniest british actor there is in my opinion.

A superhero comedy that I took a lot of inspiration from was the Deadpool movie as the humour in that movie was god with physical slap-stick and verbal comedy, the fourth wall breaks in it were funny as well.
For example the fourth wall humours definitely something we can do very easily as he would either mess with the camera or talk to/address the audience.
The superhero aspect was good as well because his whole backstory is; "I'm Wade Wilson, I'm  a mercenary, I got married, I got cancer and became a mutant superhero to cure it. Now I'm Deadpool!"
The first 4th of the movie was just Wade (Deadpool) living his normal life, so we'll probably go down that route.

Deadpool was also the narrator which was funny as well, so we'll definitely use that.