Final Assignment (attempt #2): What Makes You Laugh?

After some good feedback from my peers, I updated my final assignment on "What Makes You Laugh?"

For this clip, I still kept the same interviewees that I used in the first attempt, but this time I added an introduction and conclusion that goes into what makes us laugh.  The intro and conclusion provide a narrative that lays over photos/images that I thought were funny.  In the background I also added music throughout the entire clip.  The song is, "Make Em' Laugh," from the movie soundtrack from "Singing in the Rain."  Thanks to a fellow classmate for providing me with that idea and song.

The point of this clip is to show laughter.  The thing of it is, is that laughter is really in the eye of the beholder.  I can't tell you what's funny to you.  Only you can decide that.  What I may think is funny, or my interviewees, may not be funny to my audience.  

I just hope I made you...at least smile.  Enjoy!

British Animal Voiceover

What's funnier than voice-overs on animals, especially with a British accent?!

Sobriety Test

  Thank you Comedy Central and Reno 911 for this great clip!

Sometimes You Just Gotta Dance

Source: Dancing Kid

Final Assignment: The Digital Story

In our final assignment, we were to create a digital story that incorporated our sociological concept while using interviews.  So, for my digital story, I used my concept of comedy/humor and titled it "What Makes You Laugh." 

The point of my project was to get a few people to tell me a funny story.  I didn't care if it was an actual experience, or a make-believe story, but I wanted the interviewees to tell me something that made them laugh.  I chose three people and allowed them a few days to think it over.  I knew that if I just sprung this question, what makes you laugh, to them, they would experience a bit of stage fright.  So, by allowing a couple days to think about it, I knew I'd at least get something out of each of them.  Once I recorded the interviewees, I used Windows Live Movie Maker to create my digital story. 

The video below is the outcome of those interviewees and their stories.

What was so fascinating about this experiment was that once we completed recording, we sat for almost an hour throwing more and more funny stories back and forth.  Once they got one story out, it was like the flood gates opened.  All of a sudden, we all couldn't help but to tell more stories and attempt to make each other laugh.  I thought about continuing the recording session, however I knew my movie would end up lasting a long time. 

All in all, the digital story was a fun and cute experiment with my humor/comedy concept.  Each story told was an attempt to show the humor behind it, and to make, not only themselves laugh, but to make others laugh in the process.