project 1 research

HALLMARK CARDS

•What is hallmark cards?-Hallmark cards are a company that specialised in making cards and gifts for different occasions.

•Who is their audience? There audience varies on the card, there isn’t a main audience for hallmark it can be for any age.

•What do they offer?- A different variety of cards and also a variety of different gifts and stationary and also wrappings.

•When were they established?- they were established in 1910

HUMOUR

•What different styles/genres of humour are there? Stereotypical humour,

•surreal, improvisational and stand up

•How do stereotypes have a part in humour?-stereo type plays a big part in humour as it was quite popular for many reasons especially male and female stereotypes these were popular because people thought it was funny because people liked to laugh at such jokes due to it being quite borderline offensive at times.

•What examples of different styles of humor can you find – try to find examples of the styles of humor we used – (slapstick & sitcom) “modern day slapstick shows such as family guy, Simpsons and SpongeBob we also have The Office aswell.

´My research influenced my performance choices as I learnt a lot more about what goes into that type of comedy and it really changed my perspective on slapstick comedy and I think It will make me perform a lot more enthusiasm and energy and also really embrace it.