Project One
Our case study for project one was an example of an online video review, which we’ll show a small part of here:
Project Two
We then deconstructed the genre of online video review through the use of parody – a subset of the comedy genre – to understand its narrative structure and its stylistic techniques for project two. We’ll show an example of this below:
https://vimeo.com/123380601
So we took a convention of the online video genre – voice over – and parodied to understand how it works and what it does to the narrative structure of the genre.
Project Three
For project three we took this idea further and decided to explore other genres of online video through the use of parody, and see what the narrative and non-narrative forms of other types of online video practice reveal when parody is used as a device to examine their form.
The main questions we asked ourselves were:
What can we learn about online video practices though the process of using parody to examine form?
and,
How can what we learn through this process be used to inform the development of a hybrid narrative/non-narrative form of online video practice?
Our research inquiry makes a contribution towards highlighting the varying stylistic techniques and narrative-non-narrative forms that exist in online video practices.
We made fourteen sketches to explore this probe, which can be seen listed below:
1. Movie trailer
2. Flip book
3. Horror (“let’s split up”)
4. Horror (suspense)
5. Parody of a parody
6. 10 hour loop
7. Song cover
8. Make up tutorial
9. Paper plane tutorial
10. Comedy (“who are you and what have you done with sam?”)
11. Comedy (western)
12. Documentary
13. Skate video
14. Game commentary
We’re going to show you one of these that we think carries with it an interesting idea that we’d be interesting further in project four. It parodies the online video genre of sketch comedy, however, since parody is already a part of the comedy genre, we have added in aspects from the more cinematic genre of the western in order to have something more substantial to work with. What we find interesting about this particular idea in regards to project four is that we are also parodying real life. The nature of this video is anecdotal, the event shown being something our group witnessed in real life, and the new kind of hybrid video we have created by mixing comedy, online video genre and anecdotal material is something we think would be worth exploring further in project four.
