1> From your studio, reflect on an aspect of two other students/group’s media work on the website in terms of specific insights they produced about a key idea addressed by the studio?
Caitlin, Jennifer, and Syd’s works had really good insight on how you can still work and collaborate with actors off-site. Their works consisted of various versions and approaches to the two scripts and involved working and directing actors over Zoom when filming. Although they were only able to control the direction of the shots to a certain extent due to constraints, they were able to pull off an engaging film that involved two actors in different locations that seemed like they were in the scene together. Their genres ranged from comedy, tragedy, and horror which allowed us as viewers to experience each perspective of the endless outcomes the script can offer. Version 1 and 2 of Fish Tank involved two different approaches to the fish’s send-off. I enjoyed that there was the normal flush send-off, and then a burial; the shift and different levels of how people treat their pet fish just goes to show the many outcomes based on the same script. Furthermore, version 3 and 4 of Night Terrors were a contrast of comedic and horror perspectives. The comedic version saw the actors exaggerating the actions, paired with exaggerated sound effects to comedically imply the loudness of the vacuum. The use of mid shots and close-ups help to cover up that the actors are not in the same location. Whereas the horror approach involved many tense moments with good sound effects to keep the audience focused on the scene. The use of the dark lighting and setting further created the eerie build-up to opening the door only to see vacuuming.
Bec, Nat, and Max also went for the approach of creating different variations of the same script. Bec’s original version of Lost in the Sauce involved many still wide and full shots used to create and third-person perspective. Bec also made the back-and-forth camera cuts when actors were reacting to dialogue or delivering lines. There wasn’t a moment where I felt not pulled in by the awkwardness of the situation she was in. Her use of wide shots helped to break the awkward tension between the two characters at times, and at the end when she bolted in embarrassment. Max and Natalie’s were both different approaches, but it still related back with one another. Max’s sad version and Nat’s comedic version of Lost in the Sauce both incorporated melancholy music to emphasise the feeling of disappointment and sadness to the knowledge that they didn’t listen to the album. Max’s exaggerated facial expressions in the sad version did make it feel like a sad comedic scene and both Nat and Max’s version obtained many MCU to make the audience focus on the actor’s reactions and emphasis on the lines.
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2> Choose one other studio from this list (we suggest selecting a studio that you would not normally be interested in). Then describe a key idea that you think the finished media/studio work communicated with reference to two specific examples (i.e. particular individual/group works)