Talent Show Comedy Shorts-
Assignment: Create a compelling comedy short that is relevant to the Talent Show audience. These shorts need to make your audience, of 8-88 year olds, from our community laugh, or at least smile.
Due: 4- 30 second pieces that can stand alone and collectively tell a 2 minute story that is relevant and funny. The creative writing and production values need to be extremely strong to effectively communicate your humor in a short amount of time to your specific audience of APT Moms and then hopefully the school community.
Goal: To understand the complexity, detail and timing needed to produce excellent humor. To take the conventions we see in past successful productions and produce a unique idea that is appropriate and acceptable.
Pre- Production Process:
Wednesday January 22- Introduce project
Thursday January 23- Watch and discuss comedies that made the show last year
Friday January 24- Break down the winning comedy structure and brainstorm ideas
Monday January 27- Watch through the first 40 minutes of The Kings of Summer in the DMT
Tuesday January 28- Watch the middle part of The Kings of Summer in the DMT
Wednesday January 29- Finish The Kings of Summer in classroom
Thursday January 30- Work on Topic Pitch Proposal for Friday
Friday January 31- Topic/Pitch/Proposal Due at the beginning of class- for class discussion
Monday February 3- Critique Super Bowl commercials
Tuesday February 4- Work on scripting and Shot Sheet
Wednesday February 5- Production Schedule
Production Process:
Thursday-Friday February 6-7: Production time in class for shooting based on Production Schedule
Post- Production Process:
Monday February - 10 Editing
Tuesday February 11- Editing
Wednesday February 12- Editing
Thursday February 13- Rough Draft Due for peer critique
Tuesday February 18- SUBMISSION DAY FOR MOMS- by 3:30pm
Wednesday February 19- feedback from Moms and editing
Thursday February 20- editing
Friday February 21- Media Literacy critique in class
Monday February 24- Editing
Tuesday February 25- Final Project Due to the Server
Wednesday February 26- Final Critique in the DMT
Thursday February 27- clean up and upload to lfhsnewmedia.com and Intro next project
Rubric-
Topic/Pitch/Proposal— 25 points
Scripting/Shot Sheet-- 50 points
Production Schedule— 25 points
Rough Draft peer critique in Google Site- 50 points
Draft for the Talent Show Comittee 50 points
Final edit due on time-- 100 points
TOTAL PROJECT 250 Points