Here are some requested links:
As a quick aside, my documentation is poor for this assessment as I don’t have a laptop (I do my notes on my phone and edit on my PC at home).
To discuss my individual mood boards, I am going to rapid fire the things I put in. For general context, I created two for two different styles; one is understated comedy that allows you to explore feelings and ideas heavily, the other is a more laugh out loud type that informs my comedic style. Also worth noting, all of them are actually specific moments I’ve highlighted, though the pieces on their own do these things as a whole too. In short, it’s humour style or feelings I’m trying to replicate.
IT Crowd: The reveal of Moss in that sequence is hilarious and genuinely unexpected, and crafted really well through the camera work not revealing anything.
Blackadder: Blackadder’s inflection to Baldrick’s suggestion in that scene is brilliant, and is the type of humour that I personally find universally funny.
Hitchhiker’s Guide page: Similar to the IT Crowd reveal, it does a really great job of hiding the main gag until its delivery, while also not necessarily being a gag in the form of a crafted joke, it is just the situation and the character’s reaction.
Wrong Way Go Back: Came from an Andy Griffith’s audiobook. Same as IT Crowd and Hitchhiker’s (though the delivery is amazing too).
Bond’s name: Just absurd stupid humour that is SO my cup of tea. Type of dumb things I say at home. Highly relatable, unlimited audience.
8 Out of 10 Cats: when Miles Jupp claims Sean Lock says “I’m not sure about you Miles but I’m on the fence”, it is SO out of left-field but at the same time entirely plausible.
All three memes reels: I love the subversion of a totally different type of clip used to highlight extreme situations.
Top Gear: The pretend to be up myself and gloating type of humour is funny when done so overtly.
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor is a brilliant character who always attempts to find the funny but doesn’t shy away from being serious. Could have gone on either board.
Feelings mood board:
All of Bo Burnham: His ability to use himself as a performer as a vessel for expressing his emotion is phenomenal. All Eyes On Me, White Woman’s Instagram and Kanye Rant are all amazing, introspective pieces in their own way.
White Wine in the Sun: Tim Minchin sings about how stupid Christmas is, but also what is important: the people, and when they are far away, you long for them this time of year (I cry every year I listen to it)
Scrubs: Great character breakdown, reward or heartbreak for characters who are rarely put in those positions.
Futurama: Amazing use of character naivety to discover a whole new world (or in this case, the whole previous one).
Bojack Horseman: A phenomenal state of internal anguish is visualised with such succinctness and clarity. It is remarkable.
How I Met Your Mother: Controversially I am a fan of the ending, because I like that the whole time people expected a fairy tale ending, but that had never been what the storyline had been about. It inspires a lot of my creativity when I think about endings.
I spoke about how I want to do humour that is a little understated in this artefact and focus on it being a story first with comedy elements second (in short, a genre-hybridisation). Other then that, I am pretty open to anything, and definitely keen to make something that I’m proud of (which we wrote in our group document as defined by being “showreel worthy.”)
Probably less I write about how we got to our group the better, but the group we eventually got is good! We have been bouncing off each other a fair bit and we all had a similar idea in terms of the type of artefact we wanted to create. Our ideas as of week 7 are currently just spitballing, but we have a grey outline of some ideas we all have and we’ll try and stitch something together.
P.S. Thank you for the extension! Was a huge week personally, I appreciate it!