As stated on the last post there were several questions I wanted guidance on from my second presentation of my work. Below are the areas I wanted the audience to discuss and the feedback I received.
Music or no music?
The audience liked it with no music as it could put too emotion on the piece and lose its impact. I have experimented and agree with them.
In this piece here they look different as they were shot at a different time. However the audience did not notice. However it was remarked that the boys pieces did feel different from the other comments. This was due to the greater degree of naturalness and interplay between them.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the boys being centre-stage and with the focus on them you noticed the small things about them and their physicality, posture and personalities.
Everyone agreed the lip-synch worked well. They were confused over the parents being two voices but felt the others worked well and loved the sense of bizarre and uncanny derived from this. Technically it looked pretty good too.
Again a much more successful screening and even on laptop screens set up with one to the front and one either side at 30 degrees (see below) they were really interacting with the piece and looking around trying to follow the action. It made them really interact with it and have to follow the action. More randomness could aid this more they said. Also they felt it would work well also (and much better) on a bigger scale in a secluded environment making it more all consuming.
The audience really loved this and wanted even more of it perhaps with more space and screen-time to them just "being" in front of the camera.-
Mixed feedback here but most liked seeing the physicality of the boys. With Jacob and Noah being hard to distinguish between their body shapes and movements helped. The idea of them being naked in front of the camera made sense too. worth re-exploring but I feel it is heading in the right direction as it is.
A big positive as far as the boys personalities being explored in the context of genre order and the fact that black and white does not always work in terms of pigeon holing them. The continual mention of them being students by the teachers comments was a little heavy handed some felt and could be more subtle. As far as the play with and being subversive with documentary conventions talking head, exploiting the formulaic MS-MCU shot, breaking the fourth wall and lip synching went they could understand it one explained.
The fade to blacks were working fairly well and provided a nice barrier between each question allowing the audience to re-set. Also kept them guessing of which son would pop out where.
As mentioned above.
More screen time for boys just being.
More interplay between the boys.
Possibly overlapping voices of the boys interacting with each other.
More movement around screens by the boys.
Possibly get them questioning each other or even discussing amongst themselves.
Yes as mentioned above. The synching of the three screens was tricky and technology needs to be looked at to help with this to get them bang on BUT it was accurate enough they felt. During the screening I did mention I had tried different screen set ups. A more immersive 360 degree set up so screens are behind and audience have to respond to the sound. They felt that the moving around to find the screens could be tricky and thought that having the three screens spaced in front of them was working.
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