Capstone Research #2

The next book I took a look at was Writing Television and Radio Programs by Edgar E. Willis. This book went in more depth about writing for TV and radio and the different genres like drama and comedy. Obviously, I went to the section about writing comedy. An important bit of information I gathered from this section adds a bit to the first blog post about having a partner. Willis went a step further by having not just a writing partner, but a writing team to bounce ideas and jokes off of to see if they work. If a team of people doesn't find the material funny, how will a group of people? Another section that I found helpful was a small section on making jokes fit the person telling the joke. It can be a challenge to think of ideas for someone if you don't know their routine, but thankfully that didn't happen because I know my partner and what his style is. Another part of the book I looked at was the section on TV commercials. During the "talk show," there are commercial parodies. The book mentions you don't want to make a random commercial where no one will find it useful. While the commercials in the project are parodies, they are for real things (example: John Wayne doing a commercial for Shepfest). The commercial does poke fun at John Wayne not knowing what Shepfest is, but it also informs people on what they could expect at Shepfest.