The
types of comedy used for this humor assignment were satire and comedy of ideas.
The types of satire used were parody, reversal, and exaggeration. My video was
a parody of Wii Fit and ridiculed its ‘breathing exercises’ and other very
simple movements. It was easy to make fun of because the user is learning to
breathe deeply from a 400 dollar worth of gaming console. Reversal was used
when the narrator said that Wii Fit will decrease the time spent outside and
increase the time spent in front of the TV. It is opposite of the normal order
because Wii Fit is suppose to get the person fit but it will also increase
their time in front of the TV. Exaggeration was used when exercises like Deep
Breathing and Balancing on two legs are said to be difficult workouts.
The easiest thing to do while producing
this video was to find things to ridicule about Wii Fit. There were plenty of
workouts to make fun of and I thought that the price of Wii Fit was ridiculous
in general. The hardest aspect of the assignment was trying not to copy the
original ‘Wii Fit Parody’. I decided to do a parody after watching a Wii Fit
Parody made by CollegeHumour and it was very hard not to imitate their video.
For example, they had a very good Hula Hoop workout and I thought it was a great
idea but it was obvious about what to make fun of. So I feared that my video
and their video would be alike. As the solution, I looked for all the exercises
that they did not use and made fun of those.
Overall, I really enjoyed working on
this assignment. I liked making videos and editing them to my favor and I
really liked the topic of the project. In addition, making this project
humorous was difficult because everybody has a different perspective on what is
funny. If I could change parts of my video, I would try to make the scenes less
exaggerative and longer. Still I am happy with what I produced.
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