PROCESS & PRODUCTION BLOG1
Research


The project development in blogs over the duration of the module, typically around 200 words per post and including relevant imagery.

Narrowing down the large range of audience components that define media so that I can produce a humorous narrative based on a target audience. 

I will begin my research by researching different media audience profiling methods and compare them on methods used to attract the target audience. How media defines the target audience for an animation based on age, gender, education, occupation, media interests, buying habits, and brand identification.

Target audience certifications for srg bbfc

RESEARCHING

Understanding all the different types of humor and why they work is key to writing comedy and appreciating it. In this guide, we’ll go over some popular and well-known types of humor, and deconstruct their mechanics, plus give some notable examples from each brand. 

1. Slapstick Comedy 

Exaggerated physical gesturing, movements, and situations. It’s one of the sillier, simpler forms of comedy, and can be seen 1920's to 1930's vintage comedy by the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton in early silent era films, and today in the Jackass movies and sketch comedy shows. 

2. Deadpan 

Deadpan is exactly what it sounds like: delivering jokes without any noticeable change in emotion. In fact, the comedian should keep a rigid, monotonous, bored sounding tone, making the joke or observation come off as scathingly blunt or sarcastic. The humor in deadpan comes from the audience’s connection between the joke and the contradicting tone of its delivery. Some examples include the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm. Learn great (or not!) delivery in this course on good speaking habits for comedians. 

3. Self-Deprecating 

The humor comes in how mundane and relatable the topics of its jokes can be, with the comedian joking about things like their own bad habits, being socially awkward, how they always mess up dates, and so on. These are things that most common people can relate to, and so it becomes a tension reliever to laugh at our own problems encompassed by another. Louis C.K. is a stand-up comedian who uses self-deprecating humor very often. 

4. Potty Humor 

Maybe the lowest of the low brow types of humor, potty humor relies entirely on being gross. It’s often in poor taste, vulgar, and “crosses the line” for the sake of making people laugh. This type of humor can most often be found in children’s cartoons, or for the more risqué material, “adult” comedies. 

5. Topical Humor 

This is the kind of humor you’ll see on The Daily Show or The Onion, it’s easy and accessible humor that makes fun of current events. The key is that it’s chock full of relevant pop culture references and nudge-winks to recent goings-on. Learn great public speaking skills – vital for a comedian – with this course on enhancing your speaking voice. 

6. Satire 

Satire is not just the art of mocking something; it’s about using irony, sarcasm, and caricature to highlight the real-life vices and flaws about the thing you’re satirizing, while still making relevant social commentary about that thing. The Onion is a popular modern day example of satire and topical humor, as it is a fake news site that mocks current events. 

7. Parody 

Parody is not satire, but it uses elements of satire such as sarcasm and irony. Parody is about mocking something through imitation. This can be done out of a distaste for the thing being parodied, or as a playful tribute. The mockumentary is a good example of parody.

Infinite fun mario maker parody

Spinal Tap Parody

8. Black Comedy 

Black comedy, also called dark comedy or gallows humor, is a type of humor that focuses on serious, dark, and often morbid subject matter. It’s of the philosophy that when things are bad, sometimes the only thing you can do to maintain your sanity or faith in the world is laugh. “Good” black comedy should not make humor out of the devastating situations themselves, but use a combination of deadpan, self-deprecation, or satire to point out, mock, and ultimately laugh at terrible situations. Gallows humor is hard to do meaningfully, and can sometimes border on “shock value,” which is humor that aims to offend its audience just because it can. Daniel Tosh of the television show Tosh.0 is known for this kind of shock-based humor. 

9. Surreal Comedy 

Surreal comedy is about defying logic and using nonsensical situations and non-sequiturs to get a laugh out of people. It’s easy to equate it to slapstick, as the two can sometimes overlap, but surreal comedy leans much more towards the bizarre. Monty Python’s Flying Circus is an example of surreal comedy, some surreal comedy aims to do is zero in on a ridiculous aspect of something to the point of absurdity.