This week, I have an idea that suddenly comes to mind. Since the story is a funny little story caused by sleeping late on weekdays, I wanted to make it a comedy. Use the comedy technique to express the protagonist behaviour funnier. So I learned some knowledge about comedy first.
- Sketch comedy:
The word sketch comedy caught my attention as I browsed through what comedy is. I thought I’d seen something like this before, like:
I copied some information about it from Wikipedia:
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called “sketches”, commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. In Britain, it moved to stage performances by Cambridge Footlights, such as Beyond the Fringe and A Clump of Plinths (which evolved into Cambridge Circus), to radio, with such shows as It’s That Man Again and I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again, then to television, with such shows as Not Only… But Also, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Not the Nine O’Clock News (and its successor Alas Smith and Jones), and A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
Warner Bros. Animation made two sketch comedy shows, Mad and Right Now Kapow.
I find that comedy mostly uses hyperbole and some counterintuitive logic to drive the plot.
- References:
Then I got some references to describe getting up late:
From this reference, I found that in my works, the protagonists are not necessarily human characters, but can also be anthropomorphic animals. And I love the wide, round eyes of the owl in this screenshot. It can be used in the scene where the protagonists wakes up.
I love this expression, which shows the panic of seeing the bus run away.
I love this idea. Using the character rushing the door fly away to show his anxiety.