I chose to write about the video 'Armstrong and MIller - RAF Pilots - D Day' as I found it very interesting that they took a classic event and used modern day colloquial language to make it funny. I had to watch it a second time to understand exactly what they had done to make it a comedy as at first I just assumed they were portraying stupid characters that got on the wrong boat or something along those lines. Though as I went back I could hear that the register was colloquial by the uses of vocabulary like "Blud" and "yeah man" with the added twist of keeping the accent from those times. It's almost like a pidgin language, using speech techniques from both modern and older ways of speaking.
Also, they appealed to the target audience very well by making it funny to them, almost by mocking the way they speak. In that way it also appeals to parents largely as they will hear the way their children talk and think it's ridiculous and therefore find humor based on it more entertaining. Because of that there is a wide target audience which means they can get a lot more viewers than if they had a more strict target audience.
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