Critical Reflection

Final Documentary

The Full Story

Since we are only going to be submitting the first five minutes of our documentary, I thought it was important that I talk a little bit able the full documentary. The beginning five minutes of our documentary end with one of the comedians talking about the art of stand-up comedy, that soundbite is the purpose for our entire documentary. We introduced our characters in the beginning and allowed for them to speak for themselves and tell their stories. We felt that this would capture the viewer's attention.

We do not have any voiceover in our documentary because we felt like that allowed for the story to breath. It is easier to relate to someone in front of the camera versus an unknown voice. We wanted our documentary to be very personal and have a lot of charisma and I think we were able to capture that. Instead of striving for a factual story based on statistical data, we wanted the viewer to feel like they could relate to the characters. We felt like we needed to make sure the entire documentary stayed light and relatable with some comedy as well.

The story continues into the two comedians talking about their stand-up comedy. We then follow Robert to his second ever gig and watch him perform, he tells the viewer about what he experiences before and after the performance.  We also follow Chris to one of his bigger performances, this allows for the viewer to see the contrast between the two stories.

In the end, it is clear that they both have one thing in common, that thing is hard work. Although it did not come right away for either of them, stand-up comedy is a lot of preparation and dedication. This is a common theme that our entire audience can relate to and this is what is going to make the audience love our "sweet" documentary.

Website Link

Visit our official website:

www.theartofcomedy.weebly.com

Poster....

Documentary coming soon.

Creating the Website

When creating the website for our documentary, we wanted it to be bright and carry the same tone as our documentary. The website is going to have a fun look and allow for the "fans" to find out more about the stand-up comedians in the documentary. Since this is only a five minute excerpt of the entire documentary we felt that the website should be about promotion, since our full documentary has not come out yet, in order to get people excited to watch the full documentary the website it able to show the background of our subjects.

We only introduce two people in the first five minutes of our documentary, but later on more people will get introduced, once we release the full documentary we will continue to use our website to get more background information. All the information can be found on our website. We chose the color red for our website because it reminded us of the red carpet and getting on stage at The Improv, the lighter red allows for it to be less powerful and have a happier feel to it.

Documentary Outline

When creating a documentary, it is important to set a specific tone. Laura and I want our documentary to be very raw and believe that the people we talked to are able to articulate their stories on their own. Each of the individuals we talked to have enough emotion in order to keep the audience enticed.

Our documentary is focused on the art of stand-up comedy and the work each of these people needs to put into their sets. The audience can relate to the idea of wanting to laugh, but being on stage as the person who wants to laugh is very stressful to them.

We are going to start with Robert talking about his past experiences with making people laugh, then get into Chris talking about his past experiences.