Tread mill videos

Our idea is to create a funny animation based on our subject of rivalry. The idea we have come with for rivalry is to have two characters one tall and thin and the other is short or fat, they are in a gym running on Treadmills against each other, the rivalry created in this scene will revloved around their competativeness over who is able to run faster on a treadmill. Me and my partner Robin went for this idea because we felt that it would be a funny everyday situation that everybody in our audinece could laugh and relate to and understand based on real life experiances or videos watched. The rivary will be demonstrated clearly throught the competition based on speed and both characters idea of proving who is the quickest on a treadmill. The characters will run side on next to each other until one falls, the main idea is to have small or fat character which is yet to be decided as the character who will run through out the small competition and not fall, instead the tall and thin character who you think would win will be the character to lose and fall face flat. This our way of making the animation funny, through the asumtion of the audeince thinking that the thin character will win, the audience will be left to anticipate what happens to the point of the thin character falling which is where the joke is because the character who is expected to win falls and the other who is regarded as the loser aka the fat or short does not.

The previous videos are hilarous compilation of Treadmill fails uploaded on youtube. The reasons for the videos being hilarious is the reason for people fall on a Treadmill and why, a lot of the time it is just stupid people practicing silly stunts  that back fire, thing that makes the videos funny is the fact they fall after they have decided to do something stupid. This is because you expect them to fall but you don't know how they are going to fall until it happens , it supprises and makes you laugh because its something that is expected to happen, but it does not happen the way you planned but ends up a different type of fall which is over exaggerated.

These videos are just to help me get an idea of how to make character fall and what ways I could exaggerate his actions before and after the fall.