In the second week of the comedy studio, we learnt a new theory, something different to the past theory we learnt and this one has got me thinking very hard for my sketch. In this week i learnt about Benign Violation and Relief comedy alongside silent comedy. These theories of humour were developed into my own piece this week but i focused more on the violation and linking silent comedy with using visual comedy instead of using vocal language to deliver the punchline, i limited the amount of talking to flow it better. First of all, Benign Violation theory is when humour occurs whilst a circumstance is appraised as a violation, something that is not normal, the circumstance is appraised as benign(gentle) and both of these perceptions work together to deliver the punchline. The way i look at Benign violation theory is through a Venn diagram, on the left side, Benign, its safe, acceptable, on the right side we have violation, it breaks the norms and rules and in the middle we have the two together withheld by puns, slapstick, sarcasm, dirty jokes and more. Relief comedy is basically when a character reliefs the audience from tension in a serious situation. This could be seen in our class when we watched the first episode of Mr. Bean, we see him in an exam a very serious and stressful time, and causing a ruckus with visual comedy, not even speaking and he makes us laugh, this could be applied due to his facial abilities, props and performance. Going back to visual comedy, this concept is heavily connected to silent comedy. This type of comedy was very popular during the start of cinema, with comedic actors such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. In class we watched Buster Keaton’s film ‘The High Sign’ from 1921, a movie over 100 years old still cracked up the class. With the use of facial expressions, over the top dramatic responses, slapstick and stunts, silent comedy was very powerful. In my media artefact i tried to respond to these theories by linking them together to create something funny. My idea was to have a witty cocky character walk the streets then bump into a character who was ultimately blind and him not realise it and all this happening from a still character, no close ups at all to emphasis the genre. From week 2 we enlisted in feedback from our peers, i used this hugely as when i was thinking of an idea, my peers told me to think simple not hard, and this is exactly what i did, and i think it worked.