TRANSITION: Presentation & Feedback

Alex, Katie and I had to present our idea to Simon and the rest of the group. We presented a mockumentary idea inspired by Cunk On Britain. 

Our presentation:




On slide 7, we each had our own research to explain to the rest of the group. As editor for this unit, my information included the different comedic editors I want to look at:

- Edgar Wright’s work – he uses fast action style editing, usually of mundane tasks, including whip pans and crash zooms – editor Chris Dickens (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz).
- Damon Tai - editor of Cunk on..., 8 Out of 10 Cats, Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe.
- Nigel Williams - editor of The Office, Outnumbered and Mongrels.

And then the recent research I've done about comedic editing:

- Timing needs to be sharp in order to land well with an audience.
- But sometimes the comedic timing doesn’t work – there’s just not a long enough pause after a joke – will liaise with Alex on this.
- Sometimes a few extra frames added or trimmed can be the difference between a joke landing or not.
- Good way to see what’s funny and what’s not – get someone else to watch it and see their response to find what people think is funny and not funny.

Feedback:

- The rest of the group liked the idea and found the clip really funny.

- They also said they think we could pull of an idea like this.

- We pitched that we wanted to use the same subject matter as the clip in the powerpoint - climate change - and then aim to create a mockumentary with our own subject matter in the 3rd year. Simon recommended that we create our own subject matter for this unit instead as copying the one in the clip, as we have a writer in the group (Alex), and ideally he should write a new script rather than copying the same information as the one for the climate change clip.

- Simon asked about how we were going to work the producer role - we said that we would all take different parts, e.g. someone looks for location and someone makes a casting advert. 

Overall, Simon was happy with the chosen idea and we can now develop our mockumentary and continue researching, looking for contributors and locations.