In this week of the comedy studio, i was quite fond of what was going on and what we were experimenting with. This week our main focus was parodies. To me parodies are an imitation of a style with a complete exaggeration of a media form that is obviously on purpose. The significance of this parody is to use comedy as a mode instead of a genre. Using comedy as a mode means that it is basically seen by the audience that something is humorous even though it may not be a comedy but if it is a comedy we are known that we are supposed to be amused by what is happening, its more focused on providing a foreground for the audience to know that we are supposed to laugh, its like watching a comedic movie because we are expecting to laugh, its bound to us. Many famous parody films that are comedic involve Austin Powers, parodying James Bond, Hot Fuzz and the cornetto trilogy parodying action films and scary movie parodying classic horror films. The readings and lecture this week were very significant in my learning and my classmates learning, first of all in this weeks lecture, we got to hold of conference with a professional comedian (Hannah Camilleri) which not only showed us her work ‘Little Shits’ but she gave us a lot of feedback to make ideas which was one of my biggest issues and problems with comedy. Something that stuck with me was when playing an unserious player, you need to be sincere when playing it, you need to believe what your saying no matter how stupid it may be. In the lectures i learnt that the difference in parody and satire is that parody is internally focused and that satire looks outwards and is external to the genre. Following on with my personal media artefact, i think that these thoughts followed onto myself and my group. We learned that comedy’s relationship with this sketch is very important, we know were not supposed to laugh at this but we are, we know it’s a parody because we are aware that it significantly exaggerates the news industry. In our artefact we wanted to use this parody to parody programs like ‘A Current Affair’ ‘Married at First Sight’ and just news programs that think they know what is happening but are unaware and think too serious and not realise how stupidity and accidental comedy can take place which we took advantage of to promote this piece.