Possible Film Titles

Breasts are Funny
Giggles from the Back Row
That's What She Said
Bless My Bloomers
The Breast One for the Job
XY Comedy
Boy Meets Funny Girl
Out with the Old, In with the Women
Survival of the Funniest
When Pigs Fly
Sugar and Spice and Everything Funny

Any suggestions? I'm really at a loss.

The logistics

Time Table:
Meet with MTS - October 4, 2007 (Thurs)
Talk to random Clemson students - October 9, 2007 (Tues)
Interview MTS people - October 9, 2007 (Tues)
Begin editing - October 10, 2007 (Wed)
Find selections from text - October 19, 2007 (Fri)
Edit footage from Chicago Trip - November 7, 2007 (Wed)
Edit footage from November Show - November 12, 2007 (Mon)
Edit footage from 24 Hr Show - November 24, 2007 (Wed)
Add book selections - December 3, 2007 (Mon)
Finish video - December 5, 2007 (Wed)
Present in Class - December 6, 2007 (Thurs)

Milestones:
October Show - October 5
Video: first draft - October 11
Chicago trip - November 2-5
November Show - November 9
Video: second draft - November 12
Homecoming/24 Hr Show - November 19-20
Video: final draft - December 5

Work Completed:
· September Show filmed
· Interview with Bryan filmed
· read Whose Improv is it Anyway, Improvise, Impro, Truth in Comedy, Directing Improv, Improvisation for the Theater, Musical Improv
· recorded interviews with Molly Erdman and Wendy Mollneux


My project seems to be too broad. Here's a paragraph that attempts to wrangle the topic more towards women in comedy:

This film will explore women in comedy at two different levels: women in Clemson and women in mainstream comedy. Are women as funny as men? Are women relatively more funny in Clemson than in mainstream America? What makes women funny? Who thinks women are funny? There are many women types: Sarah Silverman (vulgar, outspoken), Ellen Degeneres (asexual nice) and Tina Fey/Molly Erdman (intellectual witty). Woman types in Clemson: sorority girl, artsy girl, intellectual girl, overly-sexual girl. Are any of these girls funny? Are they comparably more or less funny than men?

This video will feature a montage of interviews, examples of women in comedy and selections of reading which explore women in humor spotlights.

My Project Proposal

what:

• explain comedy, humor, improvisation

• relations of women versus men in comedy

• interview improvisers, find people who understand comedy

• have a film that is short, funny and informative

• create a professional look at comedy (inside edition)

why:

• discuss what makes something funny

• discuss what the difference is between men and women in comedy

• bring more discussion to what is comedy

• understand comedy

• showcase what I care about: improv

how:

• a video

• interviews with improvsiers, regular people

• provide information from comedy books

• mainstream comedy images

• clear idea of comedy: fun colors, fun music, fun people
  

A font to represent me

Papyrus

I really like this font because it's imperfect for a type font, but it's practically perfect for handwriting. My handwriting is never this good, but on good days it's close. When I type, I can have beautiful handwriting. I like that. I think the dots on the "i"s and "j"s aren't excessive, neither are the "t"s. It's simple, but it still has a cute sort of style of its own.

It says I'm simple, but I'm nothing obnoxious. You can read paragraphs and paragraphs of this font without feeling spent. I'd go so far as to say it's relaxing and relatable.

Clemson SecondLife

the ampitheater

Tilman hall!! and I can fly.

Underwater in the reflection pond. Woot.

The hair I've always wanted.

This is my updated Alyssa Vita.

I found her face!

I found the dragon, the torch and her face.

I still don't know what's going on.

SecondLife = Frustration

My Second Life account has been nothing but frustrating. I can't figure out how to change her clothes, her hair or even look at her face. It's so frustrating because it seems like learning how to do these things is very difficult. I can't really get the whole moving around thing either.

I don't think the tutorial is very helpful, either. It asks me to pull a torch from my inventory and put it on my person. Well, I search through my inventory, and I have no objects. Okay, so how do I put a torch up?

I can't help but hate SecondLife right now. It's not fun, and I don't understand why it's such a popular computer trend. When I first learned about it, I thought it sounded awesome. But that's just it--in theory it's a great idea. In reality, it's horrible. I hate it, and I'm not looking forward to any more work with it. I hope that we don't continue these accounts.

Maybe I'm just not an internet world kind of girl. I don't get into the discussion board thing, and I'm over AIM and the like. I understand the visual communications behind it though: anyone can present themselves as whoever they want. Men can be women, women can be thinner, kids can be adults, etc. It's a chance to really have a second life. But I don't think it's for me. I'll take reality, thanks.

New Lessons.

In class we talked about the four things that are essential to visual communications: color, form, depth and movement.

I think I will have to keep those in mind when I work on my film. My ideas are coming along. I hope to start splicing my interviews into a montage sometime this week/weekend.

Attempts at Final Project Idea

I know that I want to explore what comedy is. I think the best way to fully utilize the equipment of the MATRF lab and explore something I care about is to make a documentary about comedy.

I don't know exactly how it will be set up, but I know that I want it to begin with a montage of what people think comedy is. I want to interview lots of people and then string all their responses to "What is comedy?" together to create the opening.

I don't know what my purpose would be. I think I want to examine what people consider to be funny and hopefully a theme or purpose will rise from the footage I take. I video taped the Mock Turtle Soup improv show last Friday. Hopefully there are pieces I can use in my film.

There are a lot of things that are funny in life. Ideally, I want to focus on intended humor (film, television, improv, etc) instead of accidental humor (people falling down, friends, awkward situations, etc). I think this project will take a life of its own once I start putting it together. I hope to interview people on Wednesday. I want to ask random people on the library bridge, friends in my classes and improvisers on Mock Turtle Soup team. We'll see how it goes.

Communicating Visually

This course is helping me to realize how important visuals are. We looked at facebook and myspace accounts in class last Thursday. I didn't realize how my profile compared to my classmates. According to my class, I'm an gregarious, artsy, eclectic and public.

I think those are pretty accurate. I love meeting new people and keeping tabs on my current friends. I feel as though my tastes for music, art and film do tend to be more eclectic and artsy than the average Clemson student. That's only because I'm an English major and an improviser. Writers, by nature, are the odd ones. Everyone knows I'm a public person. I love for people to know what is going on in my life!

Our project was to create a hypothetical myspace for a friend. I chose my friend Fiorela because I think if I had to jump into someone's head, I would choose hers. We've been friends for years, and she's one of the few people from home I talk to regularly. I think she's such an intelligent girl, but she's a real artist. And I hope that my creation fully captures her personality and character.

I'm still trying to figure out what I want my film to be about. I'm working on a few ideas. I have some podcasts I want to use, and Mock Turtle Soup performs Friday. I hope to use some footage from the show in my film. I'm reading Whose Improv is it Anyway. I need to find out what sort of copyrights there are about quoting from books. I think as long as I say it's from this particular book I can quote it.