Our audio essay is completed! I’m so proud of our group getting it done so efficiently.
We had arranged our final group PB4 meeting to be scheduled on Monday at 1pm in one of the editing suits in building 9. Here we would do the final editing together, listen to the audio essay and watch the video essay and see if there are any final suggestions. I had previously arranged a meeting with my cinema studies group at 11am on that day to practice for our 40-minute presentation at 2.30pm. The assignment went well, however by the time questions were asked and the de-brief from our assessor was complete after our presentation, we didn’t finish until 3.30pm.
As soon as we were dismissed I went down into the editing suits to find my PB4 group. After looking in every room, I couldn’t find them, and it wasn’t until I Facebook messaged them I found out the meeting was over. I felt bad missing the meeting as I had also missed the one prior due to other commitments, however that’s when our group Facebook page comes in handy. Ryan was able to let me know what I had to do in order to finish our assignment.
These are the three introductions I wrote on the train on the way home from uni to send to Lydia as soon as I got home:
- Stars James Franco and Seth Rogan discuss in various interviews how both the Korean culture and American culture are victimised in the film, and that it’s not meant to be targeting anyone or any culture in particular, purely created for as a humorous piece of work.
- In 2014 following the release of The Interview, North Koreans threatened a 9/11-like terrorist attack on those who premiered the screening of the film, specifically in New York City. The Sony hackers, who were allegedly North Korean, claimed “those who seek fun in terror should be doomed” and after it “all the world will denounce the Sony”. Columbian Pictures and Sony were eventually allowed to release the film, as long the death scene of Kim Jong-Un wasn’t to much of a celebration.
- In order to gain a cinematic and academic perspective on ‘The Interview’, we interviewed Australian film producer Mark Patterson on whether the stylistic approaches override the ideology of the film. Even though he had not seen the film, he was able to provide a basic overview on films, especially comedies, that have the capability of meaning different things to different cultures.