The Humour Project is an assignment where we use humourous techniques to not only make the audience laugh, but also criticize specific topics or ideas. The goal is to learn how to create a wider variety of media and also have some fun for our last English project.
Analysis
The Rhetorical Analysis is an assignment where we choose a specific peice of comedic media, analyze it’s humour techniques, and then write a short essay on them. I chose to analyze the Ten Duel Commandments Meme Parody, which mocked the original song from hamilton.
Context
For my humour project, I wanted to do a parody of stereotypical character tropes in movies such as Die Hard and Top Gun, so I decided to create a short video criticizing the “Action Movie Protagonist”. In order to achieve this, I primarily used the humour techniques of charicature and parody, while refering to the real source material for specific scenes.
Script:
~5-6ish second sections with different scenes using generic tropes
NOTE: this is the humanistic approach to humour
Scene list:
generic “meeting partner for first time” scene (6.5s)
“I’m ambiguously caucasian but undeniably muscular, nice to meet you”
Top gun its classified student scene (8s)
Sitting in chair, wearing aviators
“I was above him and inverted, (cough cough) in my plane of course because its a scene from top gun”
Sweat (3.5s)
be soaked in water
“Is it hot in here or is it just me” -> almost then cut
Battle (3s)
In cockpit
“Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way”
Punches (8s)
“(hiya, hwacha, kapow) aren’t my martial art impressive?”
Time limited, bleeding (2)
“I’ll be back in 10 minutes.”
Top gun volleyball scene (7.5s)
Cropped image of muscles on while i hit volleyball png around
“now here’s a beach scene that makes you question my sexuality while showing how good I look”
Doing push ups (5.5s)
(do one, 2 secs, do another, 4 secs, down on last at 5.5 secs)
generic cocky (3s)
“airplane is my middle name.”
Techniques
When making this video, I used a green screen to crop myself out and placed myself in various backgrounds. I additionally tried keying out the green lighting, but failed in some parts. I used the chroma key tool in Adobe After Effects to achieve this.