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The first week of the group assignment has officially passed and all i can say is i am very excited and amused for the future of the creative, hilarious piece we create together. Although we just started, i feel that each team member in our group provides a sort advantage to our project and as we work together and get to know each-other more, our ideas will help us rise to create what we are aiming for, something very special. At the start we didn’t really have an idea on what we could create but as we got to know what type of comedy we like through youtube videos, tv shows and even some movies that don’t even express comedy, we brainstormed and then kept bouncing off ideas off one another’s thoughts which is a good sign into us creating this short film. We want to create something that takes the piss out of people our age range and sort of a familiarity in our youth class, with this sort of familiarity, we will introduce comedic elements like satire, incongruity and sort of smart comedy to enhance our idea.

Comedy Mood Board:

I enjoy all types of comedy but i would say that the comedy that i like is the comedy that laughs about the scenarios we get in, the familiarity, dark comedy and incongruity, i probably like more stuff too but here are some examples i’m thinking around with my team and what i like. Because we are focusing on sort of comedy within groups of people i thought of these examples + stuff i like:

Theories i would like to experiment with:

-Genre Hybridisation: I like the idea of sort of combining a genre with then providing comedy elements, i feel that it makes it very natural and just how life is, a big example i think personally is The Sopranos, we can go from one very dramatic scene to the funniest thing you’ll ever see. Example Pine Barrens Episode (S3 E11). 

-Satire: I like the idea of showcasing real life scenarios and then dramatising them with comedy, this stuff makes me laugh the most and my group notices this too which is a good sign and opportunity for the future. The best way to make people laugh in my opinion is to remind them of something familiar. Example Carl Barron Standup or any standup performance basically.

Almost Friday TV – Form & Visual Style

These guys have a youtube channel where they make skits about these things that we go through and really mess around with form plus they are really professionally made. One example i like is when you see that one guy at a party who u just want to say goodbye to, the guys use this as groundwork and then turned it into this hypnotised ‘Get Out’ type scenario where the guy is stuck inside held captive by this frat guy which was just so extreme and hilarious.

Peep Show – Form & Visual Style

I chose this for an example because i like how it uses the POV of the camera to become the characters to then communicate what i think is intensity and provides us laughter which makes us feel involved, threatened and to myself it works really well to display comedy even though i am just on season 1. No other show i have seen that does the same as Peep Show.

 

 

‘Key and Peele’ -Sketches

I chose these guys because i basically just grew up watching random sketches on youtube from these two. I loved how far they have come and their jokes and sketches really still stick up today and my humour still cracks up with these two. I like the absurdity they get into its too good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Inbetweeners –The Gig and the Girlfriend -Episode

I chose this episode because it shows the boys firstly paying for drugs from the school bully in which they actually get given tea and try to smoke it, they eventually get weed at a gig where Simon tries to impress a girl, Jay pretends he is a drug expert, Neil mixes ribena and sleeping pills instead, and Will has a breakdown in front of the whole concert as he is peer pressured into ingesting the drugs. This sort of follows our group idea through different ways people respond to drugs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seinfeld –The Contest Episode

I chose this episode because it follows each character and their POV on the contest in which we will try to sort of replicate, each character goes through something different and i think this way is just really funny and works well through how ridiculous it is.