Group Tutorial (notes)

I recently had a group tutorial with my peers at University, it's a great opportunity to get feedback on my current practice and to test the waters to see if my ideas are being portrayed. I must say I felt that the work was received very well and the majority of the audience created their own narrative and understand that this work was a reaction against cinematic techniques.

Notes

Power, Show, Relationships, Tension, Music, Domestic, Anger, Voyeurism, Melodrama, Fragmentation

Set Up: Seating puppet show, choice of seating: in context, imposed

Fly on the wall, home open doors, allowed to see

Indifference, Resistance, Suggestion

Clothes: Red jumper - power, Family, comment on domestic setting, Education show, learning, Language, Melodrama, Film Soundtrack, "French", No decorative element, CONTROL! Simplistic gestures, Stereotypical, Pauses - staged at intervals, Dollhouse: controlling figues "dolls"

Do we need Dollhouse? - basic symbol, depth & complexity within film, specific setting

Cliche! Clue to a scene, Emotional actions, staged, controlled, exagerated, RITUAL,reduction

White normative/heterosexual stereotypes, middle class (house)

Actions - autism, stages of a process

Actors - signifying something

Scale - encounter closer, facial expressions, want to approach, subtle/ slight expression, intended removal, Steve McQueen (shed falling)

Voyeur, Open troubling, unsettling, placement of audience

Loop - Performance,continuity, on going, everyday, reason - breaks idea of a show, departure, parallels, domestic relationships, comment female, mirrored, short yet unable to followed narrative.

Chronologically ordered, fragmented, lacking emotion, flat, choreographed emotion, artists in control!, vulnerability, blanks, denial of facial expression, theatrical body gestures, reduces basic symbolism, purposeful lack of talent, child's perspective of parents, censored.

Music: emotional content, changes interpretations, editing techniques, speed static, theatre, nightmarish/dramatic, builds

Green Screen - virtual place, action figures

No Era, clothes decor, Mr Ben, animation - creepy, simplicity/repetitive.

Hide mechanics, binary masculine structure conventions of cinema's phallocentricism.