This entire book is about how to write comedy, which I thought might be useful in my essay, as before an animation could be made, it begins like all other media from paper works first, the write up of the idea, the storyboarding, all could relate to writing comedy. This books goes through many topics such as why is it important to write comedy, why do we laugh. It also goes through techniques, and different way to write to apply 4 different audience, for example if your writing for a TV script it would be different to how to would write for Live Comedian show.
The book points out that humour can be created if the speech of the character doesn’t suit its personality, another way of creating humour by transferring characteristics, one of the most famous transferral would be, transferring human characteristic to animals. Which I didn’t realise was a technique of humour, I thought it was just something different from what we usually see, human acting like themselves, which kind of gets boring, because we see it in nearly every film, animation of it wouldn’t really make it seems that much of a different. I think it says another type of method is when you let audience things something is happening but then you add something to it, it changes their views and which creates humour, for example, a horse is running and its putting a lot of effort in the running which makes us believe that its running very fast, but as the camera zooms out we would see another character, like a turtle, walking along the horse, which will then change the whole scene and make it seem funny.
Overall I think it’s a good book to have a read, although some of the explanation is slightly too complex, and they should give a new examples explaining their statements, but overall I enjoyed reading it. So if you have time I hopes that you will have a read if you are able to get a copy. If you cannot the link below is a preview, you may read a few pages of it.
