Milk Run (2024) was a great chance to practice the use of comedy as a mode, collaborative work, and develop my production skills. I hope our piece effectively utilized the theories of comedy we explored during the semester, as we intended to hybridize coming of age and Harper’s unique lived experiences with comedy as a concept. Ideally, I would like to finish refining my edit to create a piece that has a more cohesive soundscape, as well as further tweaking the pacing of the dialogue scenes. Moving forward I am glad to have gained experience working in group settings as well as had the chance to further develop my understanding of the Adobe suite when creating a piece of media.

Rogue (2024) is a film by Bobby Nguyen, Chloe Stelling, Zoe Anderton, Anna Duong, and Oscar Allen. Blending action and comedy Rogue (2024) is a thoroughly entertaining blend of spy films, time travel adventures, and TikTok dance troupes. I found this group was able to seamlessly blend its stylistic and narrative inspirations with comedy, like Johnny English (2003), Get Smart (1969), and Jazzpunk (2014). The camera work and fight scene choreography coupled with the scriptwriting created a piece that effectively utilized the different comedic forms we have explored over this semester, creating a piece that was extremely funny and memorable.

“TripUp” (2024) is a film by Angus Alexander, Giorgio Curcio, Saskia Christensen, Ben Smith and K Ghassemi. “TripUp” is very similar to films such as The Hangover (2009), Due Date (2010), and Project X (2012), effectively taking a psychedelic approach to the use of comedy within their piece. The film delivered a relatable story of the unexpected consequences of substances taken from a stranger, the plot whilst simple was engaging and was ripe for comedic opportunities which the group utilized to great effect. The cinematography and editing were also extremely well done, I found the piece was effective in maintaining the pace of the narrative whilst maintaining a comedic feeling throughout the piece.

Re-imagining Crime Club was a studio dedicated to Australian True Crime, focused on reimagining crime for a contemporary audience. Using the Crawford Collection from the AFI research collection, this studio examined the genre of True Crime within the context of modern consumption. The Crawford Collection itself was a form of True Crime radio play popular in the 1950s but proves that the public interest in the dramatization of crime has always existed and will continue to exist as technologies change. The story chosen was A Case of Suicide (1954) in which a husband is interrogated for the suspicious circumstances of his partner’s suicide, the group responsible created a series of recreations that provided a new element to the screenplays written by Dorothy Crawford.

Open Case – A Case of Suicide (2024) a piece by Charlotte Thomas, Emily Waters, Ethan Reid, and Riley Collins Dobricic. They weave narration and character performances together to take the audience along for the mystery contained within A Case of Suicide (1954). Whilst some technical aspects could be improved regarding sound and other parts of the edit, the piece itself feels cohesive and allows modern audiences to have a new perspective on a piece of True Crime media that entertained people 70 years ago. The inclusion of archival footage also ensured this piece was memorable, as it provides a deeper context for viewers in that it allows them to determine the period the plot takes place in; potentially encouraging audiences to consider if much has changed.