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…
My Studio – Film Form Things That Bother Me – Emily Emily’s piece was one of the ones I was most excited about after her pitch. I personally throughout the semester found the interview format super engaging, which was interesting since documentaries haven’t really been…
Final Piece: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jgWT6nz8zQEnfp_dzHkxxibaKRiu976y?usp=drive_link My idea for a film drew inspiration from the countless documentaries we both watched and partook in throughout the semester. Although I was very tempted to do one of the ideas I had for a fictional film, I was really engaged by…
Handling a big workload Throughout the last two weeks, things have been moving so insanely fast that it has been hard to keep track of everything I have going on. I had to go out and buy myself a whiteboard simply for the purpose of…
Exercise 12 – The importance of continuity In week 11, the topic of continuity came up, and whilst I was aware of its relevance, I did not realise the extent to which it is so closely monitored. There is nothing more jarring than watching a…
Throughout the semester collaboration has been an important thing but at times also frustrating. For all of the class exercises, it was vital to have a group to complete the exercise, given all the components such as camera, audio, subject, interviewer etc. However, it also…
Presentation reflection Em’s pitch was to create a documentary of her grandmother and the things that bother her, pulling inspiration from the interview content we have done throughout the semester, as well as the short film “Pills” from the bibliography “32 short films about Glenn…
Exercise 9 – The observations The observation exercise was actually really engaging and I liked thinking back to things I had noticed and writing about them in detail. I wrote about two construction workers who were having a coffee and a cig at around 10…
