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Humor project is an English project where we were given the freedom to study humorists of our choice that we find effective and experiment with a form of comedy. Some of the options for the project were performance based such as a stand-up act, comedic commencement speech, or skit. The other option was less performance based but more like a series of satirical cartoons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, I decided to group with 4 other people including Janine, Lucy, Theresa, and Zoey. We planned to create a music video parody of the song, Cupid by Fifty Fifty. I value that this project has allowed me to explore the theme of humor in a way I\u2019ve never been able to by analyzing two humorists of my choice. It has opened up a new view of humor for me. I also enjoyed making our own humor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Analysis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Psy and Ylvis both use absurd humor and Farce in their work. They imply exaggerated dance choreography to make parts of their film funny. Both of them have a group of back dancers throughout the music video, but Psy includes dancing in multiple different locations with a variety of outfits where Ylvis and his dancers wear the same outfits with fixed locations for the dancing scenes. They also use facial expressions to create more humor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Gangnam style, it starts with a close up of Psy\u2019s face then zooms out to him lip syncing to the camera. Then a kid appears next to him and starts breakdancing with exaggerated facial expressions. Psy films at random and familiar locations such as in front of a playground, horse stables, a parking lot, sauna, in the middle of a field, a tennis court, inside a bus, in front of a carousel, Hangang (river) park, inside an elevator, inside a subway, at a crosswalk, and inside a restroom. He includes diverse groups of people regarding ages, gender, and celebrities. For example, for the scenes in the bus, we can see a middle aged group of women that seem to be going on a trip. In another scene, Psy is sitting on a bench in the middle of a field, with old men playing Go behind him. The people in the background seem to be doing their own thing but they join in dancing on the highlights of the beat or on certain points of the song. Additionally, his entire song inclusdes blue humor. Especially at a part where he is in front of a group of women doing yoga and when the shots zoom into a butt of a lady doing yoga pose. In fact Gangnam Style\u2019s lyrics are about an ideal woman who knows to be refined and when to get wild. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, Ylvis uses Caricature of animals and Exaggerism of the sound they make throughout his music video. In the highlight part, he questions what sound the fox makes and starts to sing different absurd sounds he assumes fox might make. His work is more funny because he stays serious and calm with both his singing and his appearance up until the chorus part where he suddenly gets dressed up as a fox and sings in a high pitch of tone to make the absurd fox noises. In the non chorus parts, he goes back to being serious and exploring the mystery of foxes. He also uses facial expressions in the part where he goes \u201cwhat does the fox say?\u201d and a part where a grandpa actor is sitting with a child on a chair, reading a children’s book. The grandpa makes overemphasized movements with his head on the parts Ylvis is making fox noises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflection:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The techniques I find the most valuable from their work are absurd humor and farce. I find it is really inspirational how they created a whole song and a video that contains all the humor and spreads joy to people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will be a good inspiration for my humor project as I am creating a parody music video with my group. I think I would want to create something similar to their work by including dances in between, lip syncing, and absurd humor. We\u2019ll write exaggerated lyrics of our situation with new freestyle building and re-record the song to make it sound funny. I also want to film in many different locations as Psy did in Gangnam Style and possibly dress in funny costumes in certain scenes like Ylvis\u2019s The Fox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposal<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Are you collaborating with others? Yes<\/mark>* or No<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    *If Yes, list the names of your collaborators :<\/em> Janine L, Lucy W, Theresa M, and Zoey B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Which form of humor are you planning to develop? (See menu<\/a>.)\n