Superhero spoofs

Superhero spoofs:

Spoof is the idea of making some sort of medium based upon another stimulus and in lamans terms taking the mick out of it. Spoofs manipulate certain parts of a stimulus to make it humerous, scenes may be changed but it is still recognisable as the stimulus. You can be as homed in as humourising a certain scene of a stimulus or you can be as broad as spoofing superheroes in general.

HISHE (How It Should Have Ended) is a team of animators and voice actors who spoof superhero movies, for example this is the animated spoof of Captain America: http://youtu.be/ruMO9SXto0Q

I really like the idea of doing spoofs because their very fun to do and helps to communicate with more audiences as children will enjoy the hilarity of the general situtaion and adults will enjoy the actual spoofing of the movies. Whereas if you show a bog standard superhero film it appeals more to children, however if you dark superhero like batman it’s not really suitable for children so this way you can communicate to more audiences.

Apart from spoofing phesific movies you can spoof superheroes in general such as the forever yours music video by artist Alex Day which is spoofing superheroes in general. http://youtu.be/qOW2eEz9cYk it conforms to all the conventions of superheroes, the good defeating the evil (like the good of Britain and America defeating the badness of the Nazis, which is the reason for the popularity of superheroes). The idea of primary contrasting colours for the outfit, the face mask obscuring the identity of the superhero because the superhero is their alter ego and they need to hide their true identity. The idea of saving people (generally women in distress) and the idea of defeating a villain with no blood or death to give people a role model and to not encourage violence.

I also like the idea that in this video the popping up captions like’pow’ and exclamation mark being shown that they are on cardboard is making the video hilarious because its showing that the captions aren’t real and the shoddiness of the whole video is generally what spoofs do. I really like the idea of this and imgoing to take a lot of inspiriation form this video.Im alsogoing to look into other spoofs, especially in the music video style and take inspiration from that because that is what I want to do.