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Happy new semester year 2 for me, I’m writing this first day back, just got internet access again after two hours yippee. I like to think about my funni shows and movies I like so I’m making a list of cool stuff I’ve watched/ remembered exist recently in case future me needs inspiration or something. This also counts as a list of comedy media I like because it’s fun to me to compile lists of images, and it was assigned to me in my comedy class so i can technically count this as homework/ relevant extra study.

Comedy class activity 2 Notes

Analysing comedic clips;

What are moments that show a disruption of expectations?

  1. Car robbery video – the guy comes in and doesn’t look like the other two guys
  2. Bamanda Strip club video – the song isn’t what you’d expect from a strip club as it’s quite depressing and slow, the model isn’t conventionally attractive or what you’d expect from a stripper model, she dances very unconventional, the stripper takes off her hoodie, then shirt, only to reveal a third shirt is unconventional, the comment by the announcer about her getting surgery at the end is very personal and not expected from an impersonal strip club.
  3. my home town ad- language and negative/extreme things he’s saying that aren’t deemed socially appropriate especially in ads. Personally as someone who similarly comes from a fucked up small town I found it especially funny and relatable.

 

What is the norm, convention, anticipation, prediction, or common logic that is disrupted?

  1. Car robbery video – you expect the guy to wear the same outfits as the previously established characters (who also have more points for looking ‘edgy’ and ‘threatening’ not aboriginal attire

2. Bamanda Strip club video – The stripper was very bad at performance, her face was a constant poker face rather than say erotic like expected, her twerking was terrible and looked more like a humping dog yet somehow she was still like a metre away from the man who was equally confused, the depressing song made everything connected and both began sand accentuated the comedy of the clip.

3. my home town ad- Ads are usually expected to be professional and not cross certain social boundaries, yet the guy talks and presents his town as a genuine at first and then subverts expectations through his language describing his shitty town.

 

How exactly does this moment create incongruity? e.g. language, visual, humour, performance etc.

1. Car robbery video – language (pun? misheard word) and visual humour work together to create a gag.

2. visual humour (bamanda unconventional looking stripper, her reactionless face), audio humour (dj hyping her up, the song, shes getting her jaw done next week line, ), performance (strange dancing/twerking, going back to the guy twice agaisnt expectations)

3. language is dry humour, exaggerated and unexpected

Comedy media I’m enjoying/ have enjoyed recently

 

  1. Hazbin Hotel

Hazbin Hotel Episode 7: Release date, time, where to watch and more | Web Series - Hindustan Times

Mad funny, love the crude humour and touches of drama throughout I think it’s a great combination. I also find it interesting to combine comedy with a darker setting and musical theatre its a clusterfuck I very much enjoy.

2. SuperWog

Superwog - Wikipedia

Peak aussie suburban wog eshay humour enough said.

3. What We Do in the Shadows

FX's WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS Is Ending With Season 6

amazing dynamics and hilarious hijinks in a found family of vampires

4. Anything by Dan Howell

Daniel Howell - YouTube

depression trademark incredibly relatable deadpan humour

5. Uramichi Oni-san

Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Gaku Kuze | Goodreads

again, deadpan existentialism ftw

6. The Nanny

The Fashion Comeback of Fran Drescher in “The Nanny,” with Help from Cardi B | The New Yorker

this show is very sweet and i love how earnestly herself and feminine fran is; she refuses to change to upper class standards and knows her worth as a person, its very heartfelt and her large personality makes her quite funny

7. Given

Given (TV Mini Series 2019) - Episode list - IMDb

suprisingly i find this show quite funny; the over the top reactions and relatable lgbt experiences are funny and endearing to watch

8. Story of Undertale Youtube video

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this is one of my favorite Youtube videos of all time purely because of how nonsensical and batshit absurd it is; ‘Story of Undertale’ is funny to me in itself due to the crazy connotations with the Undertale fandom in a social media context (the fandom is known as absurd). This, along with the mental image of someone’s house burning down while this parody song of a meme game plays in the background of such a traumatic event, is hilarious to me, especially due to its alleged realism (and certainly contributed to the fact the person was fine after the event/ it was a small fire with no drastic injuries reported).

9. Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: rewatching classic Australian films | Australia news | The Guardian

I love sassy clapback humour and also serving cunt (I really hope my professors don’t mark me down for this if they ever read this)

10.

New Panty and Stocking Anime Confirms Staff

Honestly iconic I love fucked up women who are passionate about their hobbies (sucking dick and eating cake) they’re based for that and also hilarious due to subverted expectations.

 

For now that’s it I enjoy my media anyway yay comedy

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Assessment 2 link

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Video 1 Rationale 

 

The concept of Video 1 aimed to explore how narrative expectations could be subverted and shifted, and what effect this would bring to the audience. Our original idea was a simple narrative about a girl completing the task of making a beverage before a bomb goes off. Bordwell and Thompson state ‘ We usually expect that the problems or conflicts that arise (in a narrative)  will somehow be settled—‘, we wanted to trick the audience into a false sense of resolution. Narrative ‘relies on mechanisms of identification, assessment and valorisation, as well as appealing to readers’ emotions.’ (Orgis R, 2016); our group noted each of these studied aspects and flipped them; we allowed the audience to identify a general story through the use of shot placement and order, indicating a sense of time and narrative of the girl making her beverage and reading, similarly allowing the audience to assess what was happening through visual shot composition. The presumed successful act of making a drink and satisfying resolution of the apparent goal in the climax, enhances a sense of valorisation, as well as appeals to an emotional reaction of satisfaction from the audience due to the mundane yet accomplished task acting as the narrative. We intentionally fulfilled each of these narrative convention criteria in order to fool the audience into believing the resolution of the story was the completion of a simple task, only to then be met with the shock of a bomb going off. 

 

Video 2 Rationale 

 

The concept behind Video 2 was to explore how cinematography influenced the audience’s emotions. The primary plot behind the video was a girl reading at a university cafe before a bomb goes off (all videos act as separate accounts of the same event). As a director of photography who recently dabbled in film, Jack Offord states, ‘cinematographers take visual references from artists like (Caravaggio) because the lighting is so striking.’ While no specific artists were referenced in the making of Video 2, artistic concepts such as monochromatic colouring and hues, were considered in the lighting’s set up. The light blue, high key lighting evident throughout most of the video is reminiscent of calmer connotations, evident and explored in art movements such as Impressionism (Brodskaya N, 2010). We wanted to subvert audience emotions by suddenly changing the lighting through colour grading briefly at the end, as well as expectations of camera by compositing the girl with half her head cut off (Bordwell and Thompson). We wanted to see if colour grading to a red scheme invoked a certain emotional effect; our group especially wanted to explore if the addition of a bomb sound effect manipulated this at all, and if the coloured lighting and colour grading emphasised this. 

 

Video 3 Rationale 

 

The concept behind Video 3 was to subvert the audience’s editing expectations. Just as the previous two videos, this video follows the plot of a girl doing something to lull the audience into a false sense of security before a bomb goes off, however this time within the visual composition of an extreme close up shot of her eyes. Bordwell and Thompson describe editing’s effect on pacing as ‘a deliberate strategy of “temporal articulation” in which camera movement—for instance a mobile long take or a series of movements — actively contributes to the cinematic rhythm of the film.’. We as a group noted this effect on continuity and used it to purposefully subvert expectations in our film. In a conventional editing of this scene, there would likely be numerous shot types such as mid shots and long shots to establish the scene, as well as close ups on the girl’s activity to showcase what she is doing to the audience. These shots would establish a sense of setting and perhaps even narrative before the bomb goes off, with quick editing cuts in succession emulating stress and havoc (Bordwell and Thompson, 2018). Instead however, the editing is one long continuous extreme close up shot. This subverts audience expectations as the lingering extreme close up shot arouses discomfort through a lack of physical space between audience and subject, and the subversion of expectations of cutting and other shots being expected similarly enacts discomfort in the audience due to the confusion. 

 

Rules and effects of costume/ make-up 

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  • Can be plot relevant e.g. provide context for character like if they wear a uni jacket = student of uni, probably middle class at least, presumably 18-23 ish etc or have dirty clothes = poor, homeless, lazy and unhygienic etc or they can hide stuff in their costuming pocket for the plot
  • Costumes can act as representations and symbols of character development e.g. black dress symbolises mourning, or it could symbolise an individual characteristic unique to the movie like confidence.
  • Costume often used in conjunction with setting to accentuate certain characters 
  • Costume can be used in conjunction with setting to elicit certain emotional responses e.g. clashing costumes and background can make the scene look stressful or anxiety inducing and chaotic.
  • Make up usually enhances performance like eyeliner emphasising direction of a gaze or adding realism to the intended age of a character and it’s not just getting rid of blemishes and stuff
  • Makeup used to again show character e.g. flat eyebrows on men often symbolises masculine serious gaze thing
  • Make up can be used to make setting more realistic or dramaticized depending on what’s needed e.g. soft makeup for period dramas vs absurd drag make up for theatre or a dream sequence maybe
  • “Costumes depict three Ps- People, Place and Period”

 

Ways to challenge these

 

  • Contrasting costumes that dont really make sense convention wise like wearing a ballgown and being all regal then going on a skateboard to a rave
  • Setting not matching costuming like all monochromatic colour scheme so nothing stands out even if the scene is important such as a murder taking place but the victim and murderer is dressed in red skin suits in a red room andd its hard to see if the victim is bleeding or suffering or fighting etc.
  • Costume completely not matching the setting e.g. abstract weird ass cubist absurd costume in a film set in 1845
  • Dramatic old film make up used in modern film as the reason for the original make up no longer protrudes on modern filmmaking 
  • Can act as a twist like a girl wearing a uni jacket actually stole the jacket runs a drug ring and kidnapped the main characters dog 
  • Makeup that emphasises ‘pointless’ things like a character looking at the sky because it’s falling down but the eyeliner emphasises their eyelids (and hence visual weight makes it look like they should be looking down).