Humour Unit Final Assignment

Jake Dibley

Inquiry Question: What is funny?

Your task is to answer the above question by creating something funny and uploading it to your blog.

Step 1:  Produce/create something funny.

Step 2: Write a 1-2 page explanation of why your creation is funny.  Explain what type of comedy you have created and why it meets the criteria of that type of comedy.

Step 3:  Reflect.  In your explanation, include a 1-2 paragraph reflection on the experience of creating something humourous.  What was challenging/easy about the process?

Your creation can be a song, a video production, a short story, a script, a comic, a fake news story (either print or video), or anything else creative (see your teacher).

It must be satire, farce, comedy of ideas or comedy of manners.  The humour should be appropriate for the school environment.

You will complete this task alone or in pairs.

Step 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7c6MNaz4w

Step 2:

For our humor project we decided to create a video satire depicting the average lines of dialogue that are commonly heard by Collingwood students. It was a spin-off of the now extremely popular series of videos which, have been entitled numerous names including “Sh*t Skiers Say”, and “Sh*t No-one Says”. These videos have hit the internet hard and quotes from them have been the punch lines of cleverly composed jokes, and they are sure to be in continued use for a lot longer. In our video we displayed satire humor, for example, when one of our actors after staring dumbfounded at a test suddenly yelled out “why do we even need to know this?!?” as a classic example of a classic Collingwood Students bratty attitude. The reason that our creation is funny is just that,  it takes the common idea of the average Collingwood student, and it over exaggerates it to make it something familiar that has been warped to make it humourous,

Step 3:

For my humor project, my partner Nathanial and I created a video entitled “Sh*t Collingwood kids say” which was a spinoff of the ever popular series that has come to be extremely well known through the usage of YouTube and of the internet. The task of creating something “funny” is not simple. The reason that I put the word funny in quotations is because funny could mean many different things to different people. So in saying this I am suggesting that perhaps a scene of our video that I found particularly hilarious could be completely dull to someone else, and that created quite challenging. Although I just stressed how difficult creating something “funny” can be, it can also be quite easy. It can be easy because in the process of creating a video, you can get quite into the heat of the moment and ideas can become to flow quite quickly and with much ease.