*Due to time restraints, our Genious Hour project had to be downsized into a little snippet of what it would be. As a result, our proposal has also changed. The original proposal is on the bottom.
New Proposal
Our purpose remains the same as said below. We are still aiming to use our creativity, passion for comedy and stage performing skills on a finished product. Now we are doing a live skit in class. The skit is a parody of a ridiculous overexaggerated infomercial named Shamwow. Instead of doing lines, we will improvise off a guide rather than a strict script. The materials we will need are bowls, water, paper, towel and dividers. We will also show our learning progress by telling the class about our steps to complete the project, for example we watched videos of other infomercial parodies and bloopers, so we will show them those actual videos. In addition, we will be telling them about our purpose, problems encountered, how we resolved them. how we decided on what exactly our script would consist of (roles, way to present), show them our end result, which is the skit itself.
New learing :
While doing this project we will learn a variety of new skills. Because none of us have never done an acting skit like this, we will mostly learn about the art of preformance the most. We have alot to learn about since we dont really know anything about preformance. We will learn different components from theatre like our presentaion, improv, and delivery. This project will also help to teach us about time mangement now because we wasted some valuable time brainstorming ideas and such for our initial genius hour project ( see below ). This project being like theatre will also help us to develope our oral communication skills as well as creative thinking, problem solving skills, collaboration , teamwork, applying new skills and the abilty to work under pressure ( the live audience ).
Research component :
The research component of our project is very vital beacause if we went into this project without researching anything, our end result of the project would be very messy. The research componant of this project will consist of searching up official infomercials and analyzing them to get an understanding of what our skit would be like. We will end up looking at many to get a concept together. We will also have to research preformance tips as well since we all have pretty much no knowledge of how to do a well done presentation. We will mainly look up videos since they will help us put the most.
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Original Proposal
Both part 1 and 2
AOI and Big Picture Connections
- Social Education: Social issues/contemporary political issues
- Learning Development of new skills: acting, creativity, enhanced editing, etc.
- Presentation Formats: learning what works/what doesn't
- Students and staff at Fraser Heights Secondary
- Performed to them through a parody of FH news issues on video and a comedy sketch live
Time-Our timeline is to complete it before the end of the semester. Around the end of May-early June is when we want to be 100% done. That is for both part 1 and 2. We are not sure how long we want to take with part 1 (comedy sketch live).
Success to us is a fully completed well edited video. In our intentions this video will be the final finished product of the entire project that shows our effort.
Resource Type Source Usefulness
Camera One of us Required to film video
Mics Jay Need to pick up quality sound
Outfits Closets Video and comedy sketch need props
Editing software Eric's computer Makes the video interesting and snazzy
Creativity All of us Our performances would be boring without it
Progress
Kept on the google docs/blogger. A detailed journal of our progress will be posted there. The journal will also explain problems encountered to what progress was made. Most of the progress will be about our research of other comedies/parodies, advanced video editing and when we get creative and brainstorm.
Peer Review
We will ask some of the audience questions, before and after our finished products. Such as asking a fellow student about an idea for our skit. Or getting feedback about our video.
