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.
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I really like this idea; so many people take their own sense of humor and project it on the world as "of course that's funny; I laughed" instead of really trying to understand why we think something is funny. Best of luck in this and let me know if you need any help going through footage or editing; I've made a couple of short films before and definitely love this kind of thing :)
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