I liked how the studio website came out, although in some ways I feel it sells the feeling of the actual production a little short as it highlights more what we created than the process, which was what encompassed the entirety of our thoughts for the semester.

I did really enjoy Clodagh’s edit of our assignment two project, Recess Stress, as it probably made the show look less janky than it actually was, and highlighted the theme for visitors of the website of live broadcast and game-show-esque content that we made throughout the semester, though it missing the excellent EVS clips Matt produced perhaps was a missed opportunity.

Nicole’s poster for The Improv Games was fantastic. I think it did a perfect job of finding the mix between that local theatre-esque vibe, but also looking professional and highlighting improv, or more specifically, the idea that one person may have to perform many different caricatures through the multiplying of Jamie on the poster. In retrospect, we should have gotten him to do a few promotional photos to make her life a lot easier.

I hope people can take away from the website the intended idea of it being a studio that heavily promotes collaboration and liveness, and is a great place to learn the ins-and-outs of live media production, especially studio productions. If all they get out of it is some shows that were a bit peculiar and unhinged, that’s okay too. That was half the fun.

I’m not sure why it particularly caught my eye, but I decided to look at Poetic Video, as it had some former classmates I really enjoyed working with in it, and I have always enjoyed poetry in both its traditional and more alternative and video forms.

I am presuming that the idea of the studio, or at least their final assignment, was to make a piece that reflected a real-world issue or phenomenon in a non-linear form, that was stylistic and deliberate in its way of promoting that message. In that vein, I thought Em Cox and Isabella Cook’s Life is Plastic was quite good. It definitely achieved its purpose: a pseudo-documentary that showed the life of a plastic bag, and how its lifespan goes far beyond the commercial and capitalistic ways we often envision their use. But the style in which they did it I found very engaging. I loved the blending of the 1950’s salesman voice, combined with the plastic/junk remnants of the on-screen text, to provide the style promoting plastic, whereas the one that was a lot more eco-friendly was more solumn and tempered, which gave the effect of showing what it spends the majority of its lifespan: in the environment, not rotting away.

SURGE by Nick O’Brien, Auley Ryan and Kal Zhang’s was similar in reflecting a real-world issue in a non-linear form, and stylistically chose to manipulate their film to highlight the dangers of drug use, and how you can feel on them. It was incredibly non-linear, which may have led to some confusion if it weren’t for their composition, as many of the effects they used to demonstrate drug use I found clever, where they used a lot of visual distortion and blending of images to create the sensation of being under its influence.