2013年3月26日星期二

comedy writing 4The Elements Of Humor (The Play on Words)

Slightly more difficult to write than puns and malapropism is humor that depends on a play on words. The classic examples of the humor in playing on words comes mostly from skilfully constructed routines that have a central theme.
One of the simplest examples of this (gags):
                                                 JACK
Excuse me, are you waiting for the train?
                                                  MEL
Si.
                                                  JACK
You are meeting someone on the train?
                                                  MEL
Si.
                                                  JACK
A relative?
                                                  MEL
Si.
                                                  JACK
What is your name?
                                                  MEL
Cy.
                                                   JACK
Cy?
                                                    MEL
(FAST)
Si.
                                                   JACK
This relative you are waiting for, is it a woman?
                                                   MEL
Si.
                                                   JACK
What is her name?
                                                    MEL
Sue.
                                                   JACK
Sue?
                                                   MEL
Si.






comedy writing 3The Elements Of Humor (Malapropism)

A close comedic cousin to the pun is the malapropism. Malapropism has become part of the English language to describe a word used incorrectly or incongruously.
Usually, a malapropism is a word that sounds almost like the intended one.



comedy writing 2 The Elements Of Humor (Puns)

1, The pun is the lowest form of humor. It is also one of the oldest devices used in literature. Is our humor too sophisticated today for use of the lowly pun?
2, No. there are good puns and bad puns, although sometimes the bad puns are good and vice versa. They can make an audience laugh and applaud, or groan and moan.

3, One of television’s better and smarter programs, Cheers, occasionally uses puns to promote plot and character and to get laughs. And they get big ones. In one episode, Ted Danson (Sam) asked Shelley Long (Diane) how things were going with her in the romance department. She answered, My love life is stable, and yours belongs in one.”




comedy writing 1 The Elements Of Humor (Jokes)

1.    Writing comedy is not so different from writing love stories or just about any other type of literature. You need to have real characters, sharp dialogue, true-to-life situations, a good sense of pace, balance, development-and once you have those ingredients, all you need to add is humor.
2.    Jokes, are the cheapest commodity in comedy. And the most necessary. But successful comedy is built around solid characters interesting in humorous situations, not just jokes. Every successful comedy series is peopled with characters you can identify with to some degree. The jokes have been fitted specifically to the person, which helps you identify with the character.

3.    Basically, all jokes are constructed the same way. There is the feedline, then the punchline.  The feedline sets the joke up, the punchline is the snapper that gets the laugh. This is true visually as well as vocally. For instance, when somebody throws a pie at the comedian, this is the feedline. When the comedian ducks and a third party ( either an innocent bystander or somebody’s boss) unexpectedly gets the pie in the face, that’s the punline.

2013年3月22日星期五

Broadway camera shooting practice

This task is that shooting a person buy or takes something. So we decided to buy fruit from Bonington to near fruit store. At beginning, we really shot many times from different angles and sites until I came to the fruit store. That was good; just we did not change the colour balance very well when we shot outside. Then I bought fruit, it looks no problem, but we really did not shot more details, just one took. It does not enough attracting people to see. So it would be better to persist in shooting from different angles and sites, such as showing many colourful fruits.   




Flat Story the final edit scene 3

Actually, the scene 3 is the most important part in the film. It is a crisis of motivation and pun line of joke in this film. Unfortunately, there are no many details in this scene. For example, there are just a few the close-ups shot for Nancy and Rita. Meanwhile, we lost many actions of them. In fact, I want have the same numbers of performance for Nancy, Rita and Susan. They are average for their numbers of performances. But it seems that Susan become a mean actress in this film. Therefore, I will analysis the different points between my shot script and my film. Hopefully I will change this issue in the next film.
1, for this shot, actually I want give Nancy a close-up shot of her face, and she needs do more specific actions in this shot. There are two reasons why I cannot get it. The first reason is that the staff had been tired. The second reason is that Nancy was so shy; some actions she does not like to do very well(not blame, analysis failing reason). So I had to use the quick way to shot.


  

 I want she scared and suddenly squat on the ground.

2, for this shot, I also want give Rita a close-up shot, because this can show her more characters, such as smart, excited and funny. 



And in this shot, I also should give Rita a close-up shot.



3, for this shot, it would be better if I did not close my eyes, but I cannot control myself. So the after effect will help me about this.

Hopefully, I will shot more details and try to abide by my shot script in my next film.

flat story the final edit scene 2

After all, there was a difference between the result of the film and I imagined. Thus, I will analyse some scenes that are not my expectation. 
1, what I want: from the scene 2, I hope the whole scene with music. That is why Susan takes an iPod from beginning to ending, and she always dance and sing.
2, But in fact: the scene 2 just has about 25s when we finished edit.  We had a try to add music, but the effect is not good.
3, Improvement: I think it would be better if add the music in scene 2, because that this music is a very popular Chinese pop song, and so funny. So most Chinese people will be happy when they hear this song (because familiar and funny). Meanwhile, it would be so reasonable to the actions of Susan. Thus, I hope that I will shot more in the next time, especially close-up shot. Making sure the film can be show more details, and enough giving my chance add music.

 

2013年3月19日星期二

flat story the first time edit



<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.      <!--[endif]-->Light problems
1, the curtain did not close tighten, this let the light of outside come in, lead to not good visual and shooting effect.
2, sometimes the light is too bright, this leads to expose.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.      <!--[endif]-->Actually, we did not totally abide by story board when we shot. For one thing, I do not have experience to shot before, so I do not have confidence to say my story board is all right, so I like listen others’ advices.  For another thing, the story board has many details, it is true sometimes we do not have the ability to get it because that actors are not professional, no more time shot more details, moreover, some senses, although we shot them, but they do not work, we cannot put it in edit because that the actors or the light have problems. So I will try to abide by story board in the next time. And trying to give actors suggestions, change light, and shooting more. It is good for editing and improve the quality of film.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->3.      <!--[endif]-->It is so happy thing when we were teamwork!

2013年3月18日星期一

Final Cut Pro (2)


1 copy
 Control + C  control apple 机上是一个花键)
2 paste
Control + V
3 go back
Control + Z
4 render
Control + R
5 De-Interlace filter
Click: Effect – video filters – video - De-Interlace filter
去除交错
单击:效果视频滤镜视频去除交错
6 transitions
ClickEffect – transitions – select effect – drag to the timeline view between videos
转场
单击:效果转场选择想要的效果拖动此效果到时间线上的视频与视频之间
7 special effect
Click effect – special effect – select effect – drag to the time view on a video.
特效
单击: 效果特效选择想要的效果拖动此效果到时间线的一个视频身上。
8 change speed of video
Click: video on timeline view (right-click) – change speed – change percentage
改变视频速度
单击:右键单击时间线上的视频更改速度改百分比


Learning Final Cut Pro (1)


1.    Put subtitle
加字幕
              单击:检视器-视频-A(在右下角)-文字-文本
               2  Change the size and shape of subtitle
                Click: control- base point-writing-drag
               改变文字大小尺寸
               单击:控制-原点-文字-上下托
               3 put end title
                Click: Viewers-video- A (in lower right corner)-writing-text- vertical scrolling   
              加片尾字幕
              单击:检视器-视频-A(在右下角)-文字-文本-垂直滚动
2.    Cut
ClickTimeline views - 1blade on the right 2keyB  - videoon the timeline
剪切
单击: 时间线- 1,右侧小刀 2,快捷键: B- 再单击已拖到时间线上的视频
3.    Files selected
Click Timeline views- 1, arrows (on the right)   2, key: A – video (on the timeline)
4.    Unlock and lock video on timeline views
Click:  Timeline views – lock (on the left)
锁住和解锁视频
单击:时间线锁头图标 (在左侧)