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Alright, one more time. I’m gonna be looking at the comedy genre this time tho. Again, I’m using StudioBinder as a reference like I usually do. The article defined comedy as any work intended to incite laughter and amusement. 

The article lays out what makes something funny, with the most prominent techniques that I could use being timing, expectations and subverting them, misunderstandings, and flawed plans. 

With timing, a lot of it depends on the delivery, which I emphasized the importance of when watching Crazy Cult Camping Movie. The article highlights that how actors deliver their lines can affect how the audience responds, making a joke funnier or making it fall short.

I can play with expectations as well, either meeting them or subverting them. I can meet audience expectations for whatever is happening in a scene, and it could still be funny and engaging because the viewer may know something the characters don't. But also catching the viewers off guard can work really well, and there’s a a bunch of this in Caught Up, but I already talked about this in depth so I'm gonna take about instances of this in Crazy Cult Camping Movie. 

In the clip, the characters are discussing what they think about the situation, so when they ask Gus what he thinks, the loud angelic music and Gus in a trance crying is super unexpected but so funny to me, it takes you so off guard but I think it works so well. 

Misunderstandings are another idea I can definitely play around. Since my characters are teenagers and one is in immense distress, I can have them misunderstand what he is saying and trying desperately to figure out what he wants and coming up with different absurd ideas while the protagonist is trying so hard to concentrate on not pooping his pants, he can't even speak (god I love this idea). Similar to the expectations, the viewer may know what is actually happening, but the characters being in the dark and trying to figure it out is what makes the situation funny.

The last technique that the article outlines that I can use in my short film is a flawed plan. StudioBinder describes it as "when a character comes up with the dumbest plan in the world and everybody knows it but the character." This could fit in really well with what the characters decide to do when the protagonist needs to poop. They could try and come up with some absurd idea to have him poop in public, or something of the sort. I can play around with this when writing.

This is definitely a super helpful starting point when writing, I can kinda write around these techniques when writing my jokes and progressing the story along, which I do need going into the script. From here I'm gonna look into social media pages for short films before starting my pre-production.