Exploring Slapstick Comedy

After exploring R.A.D.S, we then moved onto exploring slapstick comedy in movement. Slapstick is a stylistic type of movement that focuses on the exaggeration of actions, they become more lively and are also used to create humour.

This lesson we focused on taking inspiration from the 1952 film 'Singin' in the Rain', targeting the number "Make em laugh" performed by Cosmo aka Donald O'Connor. After watching the video it was clear that most of his movements were very clumsy and silly however that was the sole purpose of them-to make the audience laugh, Though whilst he's movement was humorous Donald's expressions, posture and the way he carried his body had 100% dedication, his number was also full of energy which kept the humour in place.

After the video we was assigned into trios and 4's to come up with a short and set he task of creating our own version of a slapstick comedy, we thought it would be comical if we went with a love triangle idea. For example, I liked Cameron, Cameron liked Taylor and Taylor liked me. The humour being that Taylor is falling for a gay man, I'm after a straight man, and Cameron is after a girl who admires this gay guy. We also played upon the idea that we each despise the one we do not admire e.g I despise Taylor.

Here is our slapstick comedy:

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