The presentation that interested me the most was Lachlan’s project on Edgar Wright. Admittedly, I’m biased as I am a fan of Wright’s work, especially what is now unofficially known as the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (Collis 2013) – Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007) and The World’s End (2013). Lachlan was very engaging and seemed very confident and excited in his topic of choice,  I am looking forward to reading his project.

In my opinion, Edgar Wright is a great director to research for this unit, because, when looking through his filmography, he is always thinking of coverage when working on all stages of production. For example, in Shaun of the Dead (2004), using two almost identical scenes to compare Shaun’s (Simon Pegg) life before and after the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, was used for humour, and to show how Shaun lived life in a zombie-like state, not noticing the literal zombies walking up his street.

I believe that focusing on the coverage and decoupage in Wright’s work will be interesting, depending on how Lachlan approaches the assignment. I am curious to see whether he focuses only on the trilogy, or looks at other works that Wright has directed. It would be interesting to see if Wright still uses those techniques to the same effect in his newer films. Unfortunately, Last Night in SoHo won’t be released until later this year (or most likely next year, due to COVID-19), as it would’ve been fascinating to see his techniques and style translated to a straight horror film.

On a side note, as the conversation of car headrests has come up in classes before, I am curious to see how the grips were able to set up the car cameras in Baby Driver (2017), because they were able to keep the headrests on the seats.

References:

Collis, C 2013, ‘3 Blokes. 3 Films. Many, Many Laughs’, Entertainment Weekly, 23/08/2013, viewed 21/05/2020, <https://ew.com/article/2013/08/23/3-blokes-3-films-many-many-laughs/>