The finished product

Below are the scenes that I wrote and edited for the Punched Out genre experiment. I have added annotations about the production process and how I feel about the finished product.

This scene was originally intended to be performed by a set of puppets, fitting squarely within the fairy tale genre, however due to time and budget constraints this was not possible. The scene was filmed with Amy Williamson, an actress from Star Now and Dracy Moran, a fellow classmate due to an actor originally intended for the character of Ted dropping out. The rhyming of Ted’s dialogue was a suggestion during the writing process from Angus, and worked very well. The overall lack of control over the aesthetics ultimately lets down the fairy tale genre, however I am very happy with how the scene turned out.

This scene was filmed on the second day of shooting and we created to give context for the title “Punched Out” as the entire plot revolves around the spiking of a punch as a student run party. On the second day of filming, Amy Williamson the actress who played Chastity was unable to attend, therefore the costume, provided by Amy from the previous day was not available and Neeve, our classmate had to step in and take up the character of Chastity. This ended up working well, however one criticism would be to plan out more methodically a shot list, as during the editing process there wasn’t much footage to choose from and the vile and dropper were in the opposite hands, I therefore flipped the footage and zoomed in to make this less obvious, however there were no other close up shots to cut to so that I could condense the length of the scene. The overall effect worked well and the fairy tale aesthetic was completed with the use of colourful lights placed around the table.

Again due to budgetary and time restraints we were unable to use puppets for this scene, and therefore the gag that Vincent is the magical bunny that Chastity encounters is lost. The dialogue turned out to be more aggressive than I intended during the writing process, and the acting by Amy provided a new outlook on the “fairy tale princess” character. It was an interesting dynamic, however in a perfect world I would have re-written the script and made her the victim of an evil plot, rather than approaching Ted and confronting him about the non working potion. This is also one of the pitfalls of working with several other characters and plots as there were some actions/ dialogue interchanges that were necessary in all of the scripts.