For those who did not have the fortune of seeing our live presentation here are the slides.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nl2Sv3JhhR2EdMWwuskxZ2gNM1rl410sOXnJ7S5E93E/edit#slide=id.p

I think that the receptions was really positive from our other class mates. They seemed to like the idea of exploring genre through different points of view and the whole story arc. I think the main concern was what we could produce in the small timeframe we have compared to the the giant task that filming the 6 part series would be. Because this was still under debate within the group it was hard to answer the question as a matter of fact, instead giving a few options that we’ve been toying with: either filming a series of scenes that we can then juxtapose together or create a short trailer. Although similar each have different qualities that could effect the experiment in very different ways.

In terms of what I noticed during giving the presentations: I’ve come to realise that context is going to be everything when it comes to actually creating the content. I came to notice this after watching the reactions of the different videos that we played for the different characters. All of the videos had people laughing, which is good because it was entertaining, however some of the genres that we want to explore aren’t necessarily meant to be making people laugh.

For example the Horror Genre with its character Vincent got a lot of laughs due to what he was saying, and I also found it amusing in this context. There are a few factors that would’ve contributed to this reaction, the biggest being the way that it was presented. Looking like an online dating profile isn’t exactly the scariest thing; this is obviously an easy fix when we get to filming it, because we will have a much more dynamic way of filming, not straight face to camera. Other contributing factors may have been that everyone knew who was acting, the setting of the presentation and the videos that had come before it.

Most of these aren’t a problem and will be ironed out fairly easily when it comes to filming the actual final product. The one that i’m most concerned about is the videos before it creating certain expectations for the audience, in this case to laugh. Different genres should be evoking different types of emotion from their audience if we are looking at them in their true form. This could become problematic for a few reasons. The first being even though we are working on characters separately they’re a part of the same story arc, which may connect the audience to certain motifs identified in other genres, so we’ll need to try and keep those separate from genre to genre. The second being trying to change the audience expectations halfway through a series.

Obviously this doesn’t matter too much for when we deliver the project but if we were looking at creating the full piece then it may become a big problem.

Other than that it looks like we’ve gotten the approval from our fellow students to steam ahead with our idea.