In the third week of “Beyond a Joke, Beyond a Genre,” the class has covered the benign violation theory and comic frame theory. In terms of benign violation theory, this concept represents the combination of benign and violence that stimulates comedy. Regarding the comic frame, this concept utilises incorporating contrary aspects that serve as the “incongruity” of the comedy. As a result, the combination of unexpected elements creates a novel angle, which is the comic frame. 

In my third sketch, I set up the situation of a story inside a shared house with 2 friends. The story follows a girl who got a cut on her hand and then asked her friend for help to go out and buy some bandages. However, each time the friend comes home, the girl is unsatisfied with what they brought back. For the purpose of creating the joke, I made the girl with an exaggerated characteristic of demanding overly shameless, who is in need of bandages. After that, the friend is the character that opposes the comic character. They both attempt to ask for and buy bandages and fail each time. Finally, the twist at the end is that the comic character finally accepts the bandages but then asks for chocolate, then suddenly cuts to the friend holding the scissors. The contrary element of this sketch is the characteristics and thoughts of the 2 characters and the conflict of the 2 characters in a typical shared house setting, hence creating the comic frame. 

Last week, the feedback that I found most applicable was that my storyline was confusing. Therefore, to apply the idea to this week’s sketch, I made sure the sketch had sufficient cuts that could narrate the story. For instance, I added a cut demonstrating the opposing character grabbing the exact type of bandage in the storyline. Moreover, I said the events that happened in the dialogue. For example, when the comic character cuts her hand, she verbally says that she cut her hand and that she is bleeding a lot to describe the events that are happening clearly.