The Sketch: In this week’s lessons, we explored situation comedy (a.k.a the sitcom), and how these situations are turned comical. We analysed the 9 steps to form a proper story sketch from Toplyn (2014) and applied them to our own planning stages for the third…

Sketch 2: https://youtu.be/fxcyAYMHZ7Q This week, we mostly explored the Benign Violation Theory (Warren, C. & McGraw, A.P. (2015) which delves into the idea of what makes a situation funny. The theory states that for something to be humourous, there needs to be a set-up of safety…

Theories of Humour: Surprise / Incongruity / THE COMIC EVENT THE FINAL SKETCH: https://youtu.be/_-pLEo-s0aQ What is your understanding of the comic form and theories of humour explored this week, with reference to the reading(s), in-class discussion, and/or your own research? The comic event is one…

The final video interview product: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NMY47DWfTU2Arh7aE0t8KU2g9jr1Dz7s/view?usp=drive_link As I mentioned in a previous reflection, the different interview styles were an interesting thing to choose from for this assignment, and I wanted to attempt a more casual, hand-held interview to capture somebody talking about a passion of…

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iqPr7osMI0jcJ2pectX0z0NZG_6NJ6TA/view?usp=drive_link Above is the short individual piece I completed for assignment 1. I found it hard to settle on something to shoot for this piece, as I wanted there to be some story or action, but I also remembered that every exercise we had done…