The ten hour video has become a popular form of online video in recent times, taking parts of shows or movies, or even whole videos or songs and looping them for ten hours. Originally this started as a result of YouTube… Continue Reading
In preparing for this sketch, we recognised that in parodying certain video types, many parodies create their own cliches which many people continue to follow, with this sketch we attempted to satirise these unoriginal cliches by having a person interrupt… Continue Reading
This sketch parodies the cliche scene that is a part of the horror genre, where a character reacts to noises in their environment as a part of a build up in suspense. This is usually used to delay something such… Continue Reading
In this sketch we focussed on parodying a cliche of the horror genre, where a key plot point in the cause and effect structure revolves around the main characters splitting up early on in the narrative. We wanted to emphasise… Continue Reading
This sketch takes a line from the bible and recontextualises it for comedy’s sake. We took the line from a section of the bible in which Jesus says to a group of men preparing to stone a woman who has… Continue Reading
For this sketch we decided to parody the character of jesus. We had the idea of creating a parody of a trailer, as trailers are a common form of online video, as are trailer parodies or ‘fake trailers’, so we… Continue Reading
Working from a case study that examined an example of online video practice called ‘video review’, we used parody (a subset of the comedy genre), as a device to understand the non-narrative structure and stylistic techniques used to make a video… Continue Reading
Working from a case study that examined an example of online video practice called online video review, which we deconstructed though the use of parody to explore its specific narrative structure, our group plans to explore how the narrative form… Continue Reading
1. Parody. In our project two sketches we attempted to add narrative to the traditionally non-narrative genre of the video review (our case study) through the use of parody. For project three, we ask the question: can parody be applied to different genres… Continue Reading
This is more a concern than reflection, but what if my group has a falling out? What if we are unable to agree on ideas, or times to film, or just don’t want to work together on something? Despite the… Continue Reading