Introduction
The humor project was meant to educate us on yet another way of effectively communicating with others. For this unit we learned how to communicate through humor. We were given the opportunity to create our own humor presentations based off research and techniques we found most effective. Overall, we learned about many different tools to make people laugh. The ultimate test for this was our final humor video below. We used our filming skills to create a humor video and edited using Adobe Premiere. I learned how to communicate in a funny way which brought light into my life during the shelter in place. It was a nice unit to have during such a boring time!
proposal
Analysis:
I chose Jim Gaffigan and Amy Schumer as my personal inspiration for my own humor project. My plan is to captivate my own audience, (freestyle) by acknowledging the struggles of a current topic today. I will work with Sara and we are planning on representing the possible outcomes or symptoms of being trapped in quarantine. I decided to use Jim Gaffigan and Amy Schummer because they both represent comedians who can easily make fun of themselves or turn bad situations into funny ones.
Starting with Jim Gaffigan, I used his stand up acts, “fast food ruined me” and “falling in love with everyone on the subway”. Both of these standup acts are many of Gaffigan’s acts that represent topics many people could experience on a daily basis, and he spins it off in an appealing and relatable way. He begins talking about where he grew up and references “Indiana=Mafia”. This is considered ‘wit’ or a sarcastic form of speaking about something. He doesn’t mean it literally, but he is referencing it because for people who can relate, he thinks they might find it funny. He also talks about Indiana relating specifically to people who might live there.
Amy Schumer tends to use personal experiences in her stand up comedy acts. I noticed she tends to express traumatic or uncomfortable experiences and relate them comedically. I watched several acts of Schumer’s including “Guys are gross” and her standup monologue for hosting Saturday Night Live. In both acts she proceeds to talk about sexual encounters. For many people, this might be an uncomfortable topic, but Amy found ways in her performances to make it funny and relatable for many. It is shown that Schumer uses incongruity and situational humor; she expresses odd situations and experiences through incomplete explanation.
A commonality between both Amy Schumer and Jim Gaffigan is that they both use their own personal experiences to convey humor in their performances. Amy tends to relate to the female population and Jim often relates to dads, and both relate to people who might share the same backgrounds as them. As I said in the previous page, they both tend to use different tactics and tools, but similarly, they are both well known comedians and continue to make people laugh. This is my hope for the humor project this year.
I am planning on working with Sara Martinez, and we’re going to do a comedic narrative Ad for our humor project through a video format. Our idea is to represent the known factors of boredom during quarantine and stage it as a medicine-like ad to express ‘symptoms’ and ways to deal with it. Our video will consist of the two of us acting out activities or ways to cope with COVID19. We will place a voice over during our video to explain what we are showing in a straight forward and hopefully funny way. We will edit the video kind of poorly too and to the comedic side of things as well. We chose this topic to add comedy to a traumatic time for many people (one of the tools or ways to express comedy). We will probably use techniques such as blend word, caricature, exaggerism, and irony to develop our script. Sara and I find this humor entertaining and we plan to do more research to educate ourselves on producing this humor! We are excited to work on this project so we can also bring humor into the weird things we are keeping busy during quarantine. We have already come up with a list of activities that would be easy to exaggerate and make funny. Our next step would be to script and storyboard the whole thing. We hope you like it!
Script
N1: Are you sick of your coronacation yet? Are you running out of ways to entertain yourself when you’re stuck at home? Is watching people fight over toilet paper on the news just not doing it for you anymore?
N2: TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE. GET RIPPED. (blows whistle)
N1: Working out not only boosts your immune system, but also is something you can do anywhere anytime. Taking time to tone your body and drop a few pounds will also ensure that you will look your best when this stupid coronacation is finally over!
Dude: total chick magnet dude
N1: Side effects may include…
Shin splints, torn muscles .. pulled muscles, Concussions, attracting too many side chicks, being so buff you cant fit in any of your clothes, or losing so much weight they all fall off of your body, loving yourself too much to the point that you can’t stop staring in the mirror, broken bones, crutches, constant hunger to the point of gaining all of your weight back immediately, erectile dysfunction, vomiting, and death.
N2: Death? Bro that’s messed up. We can’t use that anymore. We need to start over bro.
(video rewinds)
N1: Are you sick of your coronacation yet? Are you running out of ways to entertain yourself when you’re stuck at home? Is watching people fight over toilet paper on the news just not doing it for you anymore?
N3: ease the tension with art therapy! Open your mind and discover your creative desires! Paint! Draw! Dance! Sew! Anything to unleash your creativity can benefit you in a time like this!
Side effects include…
Change in music taste, change in room, back pain, constant change in favorite color, memorization of the color wheel, finger cramps, discovering a new aesthetic, finding yourself through your art, going temporarily insane after inhaling too many paint fumes, changing your major to art/graphic design, having way too many pieces of your art to the point where you have absolutely no more space anywhere in your house, erectile dysfunction, vomiting, and death.
N2: Brooooo, nahhhhh. Death? Again? This is all wrong we have to start over. Do it right this time bro.
(video rewinds again)
N1: Are you sick of your coronacation yet? Are you running out of ways to entertain yourself when you’re stuck at home? Is watching people fight over toilet paper on the news just not doing it for you anymore?
N2: Honestly, at this point, we’re just tryna get through this so just grab your fav snacks and sit your booty down on a comfy couch and binge your fav shows
N1: Side effects may include…
Lack of food in your pantry, obesity
N2: bro I can’t even fit out of the door!
N1: loss of memory of what day it is, forgetting what the outdoors look like, bloating, pooping, chronic diarrhea, stench, bad breath, mass amounts of dirty dishes, dreadlocks, extreme laziness, stomach rolls, completion of Netflix, remembering the lines of every single episode of your favorite show, erectile dysfunction, vomiting, and death.
N2: CUT!!!! This shiz I hopeless I quit!
Disclaimer: The providers of this video have no experience in surviving a coronacation without severe boredom.
