Saturday, March 1, 2014

directing comedy

What I learned:
  • At certain times in comedy you've gone too far with jokes and have lost the audience. Or the joke wasn't expanded enough and it only ends being a little funny. 
  • Great comedies have drama at its core. It's not just purely comedic situations, it's making light out of a serious situation that viewers can connect with. 
  • Your film won't look perfect until you're finished editing. So until then you don't really know what your film looks like
thoughts:
  • I saw Grown Ups 2 I probably watched about 30mins of the film and I still had no idea what the plot was, or if there really was a plot. I think they could've done a good job if there was an actual serious plot involved and not just comedy the entire way through and some jokes weren't funny at all.
  • Some of these 'commandments' don't work for everyone since some people find different things funny 
question:

do you have to write a funny script or can some parts be improvised?

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