Idea for our films name:

Joseph Grimaldi was Britain's greatest clown. He introduced the idea of the pantomime dame , the concept of the tragi-comic clown and encouraged audience participation. Joeseph Grimaldi was the first modern clown. His innovative stage presence went beyond the mere knock-about humour of his predecessors. He made his audiences laugh, but they cried too. His style of clowning mirrored the complexities of the modern era. Joseph Grimaldi was born in 1779 in London to Italian immigrant parents. His show-business pedigree was long, his ancestors having worked the fairs and circuses of Europe. His father was ballet-master at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and his mother was in the corps de ballet.

His father was strict and Grimaldi suffered severe beatings as a child. His life on stage began at the age of two when he trod the boards of the Drury Lane and Sadlers Wells theatres. Sometimes he worked both theatres on the same evenings, running from one to the other.Grimaldi’s innovative ideas may seem familiar to us today, but at the time they were unique.Taking a cartload of fruit, vegetables and everyday objects , Grimaldi, would deftly arrange them into comic sculptures of upper class figures. He was known to manipulate a coal scuttle, a muff and a coat to become recognisable as the Prince Regent. Joeseph Grimaldi is known to be as the God father of clowns. So it was only right naming our film after him. This mainly influenced by the fact that our film is clown based and he was the God father of clowns, so it would only make sense. Even though we have put many twists to the film that characteristically may not relate to joeseph Grimaldi, it will still gain the aduiences attention.