Introduction
The humor project is our last project and a nice finale to a year of hard work. It is meant to be a pretty lighthearted project where we are tasked with just making something funny. I liked this project because it was a good break from the rest of my more high stress classes. It was also fun to work with a partner, which is something that I don’t normally do in English.
Proposal
Our proposal started as a simple funny video. Olivia and I did our humor studies, and for mine, I did it on Studio C and James Vietch. I liked both of their works a lot, and wanted to mesh their ability to commit to a bit and ignore the ridiculousness of any given situation.
For the project, we decided on doing a commercial for something that already existed, but taken to the extreme. The commercial would be silly and light hearted, but all together useless and not very convincing of the fact that you should buy our product. We also decided to add a level of theatrics and stage part to the project to sell the absurdity a little more.
Production
We wrote our script, creating our fake product, company, and convention. Because we named it Proscuitto, we decided to make the convention sound like Charcuterie as in a charcuterie board. After that, we decided to enlist a fellow freestyler as a voice actor for the very first part as the announcer. We decided to voice act the rest ourselves and ended up spending thirty minutes recording and rerecording everything in a very cramped recording booth, which got very hot with three people crammed inside.
Later, we met up to film. There was a lot of time spent messing around with Olivia’s dog and a lot of snacks consumed. It was a lot of fun and eventually we finished, and then we had to both go and edit. We split the editing where Olivia did a lot of the rough cut and then I did a lot of the fine tuning.
For the skit, we decided that we had to keep a straight face the whole time in order to incorporate what we thought was good about the rest. This was stressful for me because I am notoriously bad at keeping a straight face, but I was successful in the end, so that was a huge thing for me.
Final Project
Our final humor project was the completed commercial plus the mini skit at the beginning for our presentation. If I am being honest, this was probably not favorite thing that I did at Freestyle, but it was lot of fun to work on. There was so much hilarity that went into making it that I think it still was a successful humor project, even if it was only for the hilarity that it gave me.