Waiting for the anzac biccies to cook
Jul. 14th, 2006 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbr..but they're looking a bit goopy :( EDIT: they taste ok :)
Well, I survived my first week of full-time work, during the Crazy July Holidays no less. Today I was doing a show, and the computer doing the powerpoint presentation crashed meaning I had to captivate the audience using only my amazing powers of description ("Imagine I'm a shark about to eat a seal...") Of course someone pointed out I could have just restarted it... I'm such a doofus :) Luckily the kids actually seemed to enjoy it!
A question that struck me: if you videoed comedians and then played them back to people with the sound off/who didn't speak the language, would they still be able to tell who was funny(*)? This occurred to me as I was pondering how much audience response is based on tone/energy etc.
Doing mine would be dull, so here's the haiku meme for my favourite pair of Harry Potter fangirls, made by the ever amazing Grahame:
(*)As judged by people watching the video with the sound on who do understand the langauge.
Well, I survived my first week of full-time work, during the Crazy July Holidays no less. Today I was doing a show, and the computer doing the powerpoint presentation crashed meaning I had to captivate the audience using only my amazing powers of description ("Imagine I'm a shark about to eat a seal...") Of course someone pointed out I could have just restarted it... I'm such a doofus :) Luckily the kids actually seemed to enjoy it!
A question that struck me: if you videoed comedians and then played them back to people with the sound off/who didn't speak the language, would they still be able to tell who was funny(*)? This occurred to me as I was pondering how much audience response is based on tone/energy etc.
Doing mine would be dull, so here's the haiku meme for my favourite pair of Harry Potter fangirls, made by the ever amazing Grahame:
(*)As judged by people watching the video with the sound on who do understand the langauge.
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Date: 2006-07-15 04:32 pm (UTC)Mmmm. Cookies, biscuits...
Hungry now.
Thankyou for the Haiku!
Go to blog for custard recipe!
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