Welcome back bloggers! In today's post, I will be talking about "Super"-Hero and our attempts to fit our desired genre of a superhero comedy, including what we did right and what we had to change on set!
Making our film "funny"!
For how much we talked about making our film a generic superhero comedy, we did a SURPRISINGLY bad job at making the film funny in any sort of way during the first storyboard and film phase! During storyboarding, our assumption was sort of that we'd just make up the comedy along the way during the events of the film. There were barely any moments where we purposefully wrote scenes out to have comedic effect. On the 3rd and 4th film days, however, we remembered what genre our film was and we began ACTING accordingly (ba-dum tsss)! In all seriousness, we came up with some great ideas after we scrapped the robbery scene, such as having a crowbar be able to speak and having the Hooded Robber tell the Homeowner to go back to sleep as if his home wasn't being ransacked! The best comedic scene, in my personal opinion, was Power-Man getting knocked out by the Beanie Robber! This scene used to look stale, but after we made some tweaks, such as Power-Man doing a wind-up punch only to start flapping his arms and editing a BONK sound once he got whacked, it became an absolute gem among our film. Pablo really knows his thing when it comes to sound effects!
What else could we have done?
In all honesty, what we did in the film was kind of the limit on comedy that we could put in. We didn't want the film to be so ridiculous that the plot loses all meaning, but also not be so serious to where it just becomes boring. Additionally, being limited to 2 minutes meant there wasn't a whole lot of wiggle room if we wanted to keep a balance of comedy and action in our opening. Now, if we were able to go up to 5 minutes for the opening, things would have been different. We'd probably be able to fit the robbery scene that we cut, and there's PLENTY of comedic potential in that scene alone. Some ideas we had for that scene were: the Alien robber forgetting his money bag, the Alien robber having a strange obsession with stealing belts, and the robbers all getting flung into the air when Power-Man landed! If making a crowbar talk and having Sebastian make loud snoring noises produced comedic effect, then more time to implement those ideas would have made our opening thrice as funny as it is now!
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