Daily Log Blog 04/16/2018

Today in class:
Fourth Marking Period. We're almost there everybody. Don't ruin the race now.
It's the start of the fourth Marking Period. With the beginning of each Marking Period, obviously comes sign ups for blogs. Get your names in your preferred slots, and make sure to get them in on time.
Now, it's time for actual work. The first order of business would be to determine what exactly you are going to do regarding the movie Dodgeball. This can be a written movie review, a podcast, or whatever you decide. Personally, my group chose to do a podcast because it's more fun that way. I would recommend that whatever you determine to do with the film, you spend the first day that we had in class to prewrite for your movie review, preproduction for your podcast, or what have you. Use this day to plan. Make sure that whatever you plan on doing, you address the following topics:

• How this film develops humor to critique the smaller and larger faults of the sports/underdog genre and other problems in society.
• What the film's cosmos asserts about the way that the world should be.
• Comedy theories in the film

If you took notes during the film, these topics should be easy to address, therefore making the planning that you should do very easy.
To connect: obviously, analysis is always important, be it in a movie, book, comic, or whatever. Objectively pointing out what makes something comedic or what makes something good has always been and always will be a useful skill. To do this, it helps to have a general knowledge of various comedic theories (which we have been given) and other objective elements (mise-en-scene elements, etc.) to determine what objectively is or isn't good.