Collaboration Influences and Ideas (Research)

 For this project, we have been arranged into groups of three and our goal is to create a comedic animated short. We were all given an incomplete starting sentence to use as the creative basis for the project. The sentence me and the group I am in were given is "How to cheat at_". 

As a group, we came up with "How to cheat at a race".

We starting researching different comedic sketches, videos and more. I looked into Monty Python, a comedy troupe that I find funny. Using some of the research and formed some ideas. 

HOW TO CHEAT AT A RACE

(INFLUENCES AND IDEAS)

Monty Python

Most Monty Python sketches are funny because they are ridiculous. Sketches like ‘The Argument Clinic’ or ‘The Killer Joke’ are examples of this. I think that Monty Python will be great to research because it will give us ideas on the pacing of the skits, since a lot of Python sketches get more and more silly as they go on. Researching Python will also give us some ideas on the sort of humour we could include. Some ideas that I have had, which have been influenced by Python, are the ways our main character could cheat. After the starting gun and all the race’s competitors are running, the main character realises that he will not win the race unless he cheats. So, he runs back towards the starting line, leaving the other racers confused. First, the main character gets a bus, but he soon realises that this will not be fast enough and so he decides to get a plane. Then finally, he gets on a submarine, before walking over the finish line and receiving his medal. The main character had to use three different types of vehicles in order to win, even though the race was only 100m! Not only does this show the viewer how lazy the character is, but it also shows them the extremities he will go to in order to win. All three vehicle choices are of course absurd but the submarine, for me, is the most ridiculous because there’s no water on a 100m racing track!