Thursday the 11th was our final rough/fine/whatever you want to call it screening of our work before its due, and it was great to get peoples feedback on the work. It’s obviously still not done and there are areas that need touch up, but it was interesting to see what areas other people thought needed work. Sometimes when you focus so much on your work its hard to look past the one specific bit thats bugging you, and other people perspective can be very helpful.

My favourite moment from class may not seem that important, but it triggered a thought process in me that has led me to consider how I go about writing and filming humour that I’d like to share. One groups work involved the silhouette of a head on screen, most of the time just singing but sometimes it would rotate, go upside down and move in various ways. One of these ways was moving from right to the left of the screen, and I expected it to go offscreen, but instead it started travelling up the side of the screen, and for some reason that made a couple people throughout the class laugh. Not uproariously, but its weird how simply breaking our expectations can lead to humour.

I’ve learnt about the rule of three in comedy before, do something twice, do it differently the last time and voila! Joke. Its the same principle that made me so entertained by a silhouette moving up instead of across, and I feel like its something to remember when I’m trying to have a comedic moment in my work. I’m bad at comedy, can’t write jokes (failed miserably at it in a year 9 play), and I’m not looking to become the next Amy Phoeler, but if I keep this little trick in mind and inject it into my work here and there, it could be a fun way to engage and entertain people, keep it interesting. It certainly had me interested in their music video, which was fantastic.