Beyond a Joke, Beyond a Genre: Week 8 Reflection

This week, we settled on the main storyline that we aim to do for the project. We aspire to remake the look of agent intelligence films that focus on the chase between the cop and the criminal. Classic examples we took reference to were the Kingsman and Men in Black. However, we aim not to focus only on the comedy genre. Rather, we visualize it to be a hybridization of satire and comedy. Even though we have not decided on the main satirical objects, we want to bring the daily life momentum to the scene. What we feel about social activities will be transformed into satirical material. We also talk about the character’s profiles. Based on Brendan’s advice, we agree that getting established with the description of characters advances us faster in crafting the vomit draft. Therefore, it can avoid illogical sensibility which conflicts with events in the story.  For example, we looked back at the main events that we wanted to use for the storyline, for example: time-traveling to different eras, and started asking equivalent 5W questions (Who, What, Where, Why, How). ‘What is the motive of our boss for time-traveling? Why was the agency in 1964?’ is such an example. After that, we have a direction in our minds in which we want our characters to fit into the scenarios. For the main character, Agent Whyte, we imagined her to be a little quirky and childish, with a strong desire to prove her capability to the boss. After we jotted down the points, we started developing the secondary scenes and tried to match them with personalities to speak of the characters. 

 

Here is the attachment of the vomit draft that we prepared:

Link to our brainstorm:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y0NnMkirLmtHHr-7WOivLypRsy-Iz5CU3rQoVeeiO3s/edit?usp=sharing

Link to our vomit draft:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iLxB55NTcyW4NO35FrW3QIaEPhvd6edcFEKgsobiFyo/edit?usp=sharing

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