Good Form – Assessment Task 1

We created two versions of the scene. My reflection will focus on the second one.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B32yH54QH6CEYkF6VUJ3M2w4WE0

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx2nOPt1WVq8Ym9McWVkZlduSDA

One moment I think works well is the ending as Matt and Oliver began to improvise a way of wrapping up the conversation by repeating “yeah” until they were face to face. This allowed me to ratchet up the pace of the cuts between shots to create a fast and slightly disorientating finale, heightening the humour as they repeat their appreciation for a cat playing Uptown Funk on a piano.

One moment I think did not work well was the cut-away to Matt saying “Whatever” from another room, playing with a touchscreen because the way the conversation flowed and was edited together did not give the moment enough time to breathe and for the audience to fully take a moment to understand that Matt was suddenly in another room and still responding to the conversation.

If I were to repeat the exercise, I would like to have more time to have the actors memorise their lines. This would help in a few ways, one being that they would not have to look down at their scripts while shooting. Another way this would help is that by familiarising themselves with the core of the script, they would have the ability to improvise and change up their delivery to create different comedic approaches to line delivery. I would also use more time to use a better camera and a tripod, to set up a shot-reverse-shot so we could do multiple takes to allow for a more diverse selection in the edit bay.

July 29, 2016 Assessment Tasks, Good Form 1 Comment on Good Form – Assessment Task 1

Good Form – Week 1

Week 1 of Good Form came and went and I am pretty excited to see what we can create throughout this semester. I was a little trepidations before the start of class at what this studio would look like. I have not had much experience with collaborating with students from another section of RMIT and talking to the Creative Writing students really help to clarify the future projects.

Creating the Project Brief for the major projects was interesting as it highlighted the different forms of comedy web series people are interested in making. The different examples people put forward were diverse but I want to focus on a more character driven comedy. My main reference point for web based comedy is Jake and Amir, I have watched and re-watched episodes and constantly go back and watch a solid chunk of episodes and I would love to create something along the lines of that.

Here is an example of the show the flips the formula and makes Jake the over-the-top weirdo and Amir the straight man. It is also one of my favourite episodes.

 

July 22, 2016 Good Form No Comments on Good Form – Week 1