Talent Show Comedy Spring 2017

Assignment: Create a compelling comedy short that is relevant to the Talent Show audience and their theme. These shorts need to make your audience, of 8-88 year olds, from our community laugh... or at least smile.

Due: 4- thirty second pieces that can each stand alone but also 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 Parents 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 professionally, and in past successful productions, to produce a unique idea that is appropriate and acceptable.

Pre- Production Process:

Wednesday-Thursday January 18-19- Introduce project and watch previous videos from last year's show

Friday January 20- opportunity for TAs to serve the class

Monday January 23-24 Watch through Don't Think Twice

Wednesday-Thursday January 25-26- Work on Pitch Proposal for the Talent Show Parents

Friday January 27- Pitch Proposal for the Directors of the Talent Show

Monday January 30- Pre-Production planning- Production Schedule

Tuesday January 31- Finalizing Pre-Production

Production Process:

Wednesday-Friday February 1-3: Production time in class for shooting based on Production Schedule

Post- Production Process:

Monday February - 6 Super Bowl commercial critique

Tuesday February 7- Editing

Wednesday-Thursday February 8-9- Rough Draft Peer critique

Thursday February 10- Editing, re-shooting for Final

Monday February 13- Editing

Tuesday February 14- SUBMISSION DAY FOR Parents- by 9pm

Wednesday February 15- feedback from Parents and editing

Thursday February 16- uploading to lfhsnewmedia.com

Tuesday February 21- final editing

Wednesday-Thursday February 22-23 upload to lfhsnewmedia.com

Rubric-

Topic/Pitch/Proposal— 25 points

Scripting/Shot Sheet-- 50 points

Production Schedule— 25 points

Rough Draft peer critique in FCP- 50 points

Draft for the Talent Show Committee 50 points

Final edit due on time-- 100 points

Final Reflection-- 50 points

TOTAL PROJECT 300 Points