Overview
The humor unit was definitely one of my favorite units. This unit entailed analyzing humorist, learning humor techniques, and working with my classmates to create our own humor project using our humor influences. Even though I had a lot of fun collaborating with my peer we found it very difficult to purposely create a funny piece. Something I value during the entirety of this project was digging deeper into humor technique to fully understand humor and why things are funny.
Analysis
The first step for this unit was to analyze our favorite humorists and compare them together. I was super excited because I loved getting the chance to analyze comedians that I grew up watching. I decided to analyze and compare three of my favorite comedians/ comedy groups; SNL, Zach Galifinakis, and Bo Burnham. All of which have different yet similar humor techniques that I was able to understand then attempt to use in my own project.
Inspiration
Script
The biggest challenge my group and while creating this project was coming up with an idea. We found it very difficult to come up with an original idea that our classmates as well as our teacher would find funny and entertaining. In the end, we decided to do a skit about 4 girls working on a school project but in a reality tv form. We decided to do a trailer with 4 different exaggerated characters with a lot of sarcasm.
Final Project
Above is the final product of my groups humor project. Overall, I had a lot of fun creating and collaborating on this film. However, I was a bit disappointed when my class didn’t agree with how funny I thought it was but I know that everyone has different tastes in humor. Im so glad that I was able to work with my close friends and classmates for this last project to end my last year in Freestyle off with a bang! I cant wait to use what I learned during this unit in my day to day life.