6
Open Up The Mic
Open Up The Mic
Content
This playlist supports young people to explore stand-up comedy as an art form—writing jokes, performing, analysing comedians, and sharing comedy skills with others and forms a part of Open Up The Mic training courses for young people and delivered by BlackLiver with the support of ShowTown Museum, Think Forward and funding from Arts Council England. The playlist and learning and reflection action activities allow young people to provide evidence that can go towards a Bronze Arts Award.
You’ll build:
● Confidence performing in front of others
● Comedy writing skills (jokes, timing, storytelling)
● Critical thinking (reviewing comedy)
● Understanding of professional comedians
Activities to complete
Finish all activities to earn the playlist badge
Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updatedContent
Find out more about other comedy artists past and present, which comedian inspires you the most?
Who is your comic inspiration? How do they creatively inspire you? What is it about their comic genius that inspires you? How and why do they make you (and others) laugh?
Include a picture or include some photographs or magazine pictures of your comic inspiration:
What do other people think of your chosen comedian?
What do you already know about them? Research and find out some more about them… Where did you look? What new things did you find out about them?
Can you find out who inspired them? What is their creative process of writing jokes? What is the story, how did they start their comedic journey?
Get activity badge
Activity 5. Comedy Inspiration Get this badge
The owner of this badge has completed the required 5 tasks required for the ‘Comedy Inspiration’ activity which forms a part of the learning playlist ‘Open Up The Mic’. The skills, knowledge and attitudes gained and demonstrated through completing these tasks include:
● Identified a comedian that inspires them creatively
● Researched to find out more about the person
● Created and shared a poster of their comic inspiration and identifying what they know and what they have learnt about them
● Shared their inspiration with others and got feedback
Completing these four tasks means they have successfully provided evidence to gain the ‘Having a Laugh - Being the Audience’ badge and are now more than halfway to achieving the overall ‘Open Up The Mic’ badge and their Bronze Arts Award (should they wish).
You have to finish all tasks to get the badge
Tasks
Task no.1
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
Identify a comedian that creatively inspires you and why? Describe their work? Document and record: Why and how they and their work as a comedian inspires you? What is it about their work that you really like?
Task no.2
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
Research some more about the person behind their work and what they create. Find out more about your comic inspiration and share with us where you looked and what new things you found out about them. Can you find out who inspired them? What is their creative process of writing jokes? What is the story, how did they start their comedic journey? Share a link to your favourite piece of work (either youtube or podcast)
Task no.3
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
Create and share a poster of your comedian and how they have been inspired by, share what you found out about them?
Task no.4
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
Share your inspiration with others and provide evidence of who you shared with and what you have shared. What did they make of your inspiring comedian.
Location
Bank Hey St, Blackpool FY1 4TQ, UK
Skills
ETS-TR
#Encourages observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, and communication among learners
ESCO
#deliver comedy
ESCO
#show ambition
#Ability to research and access relevant information
ESCO
#assess stages of the creative process
ETS-TR
#Encourages learners’ self-reflection through role-modeling
ESCO
#accept feedback regarding artistic performance
ESCO
#analyse own performance
ESCO
#assist documenting artistic work at all stages
#Demonstrating skills in report writing and presentations geared towards a variety of audiences
ESCO
#practising humour
ESCO
#analyse the comments of select audiences
ESCO
#interact with an audiences
ESCO
#review artistic work
ETS-TR
#Dares to share emotions and insights honestly and respectfully
#Ability to research and access relevant information
ESCO
#deliver comedy
ESCO
#share research findings
Activities: 5
Started: 9
Completed playlist: 1
Time to complete: 4 days 8 hours
Share:
Organisers
Think Forward
Awero not-for-profit organisation manages this platform and develops it together with leading educational organisations. The European Union's programme Erasmus+ granted co-funding for building the first version of this platform. Contact [email protected].
Change to another language: