Sonnet #152
- Episode aired May 27, 2013
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S1.5: Sonnet #152: Technically very good with an interesting delivery even if I didn't totally buy it; too short though and too abrupt in the end
Continuing my journey jumping around Shakespeare's Sonnets and the city of New York, I found myself with this project on a sets of external stairs and with sonnet 152. Reading ahead of the film, the sonnet seems to be of a darker theme – it is a love but one that has some sort of betrayal or lie within it, but yet it is a love that continues even if the writer seems to know that it is imperfect, hurtful and not all that one would hope for. I will be honest and say that I do not completely understand the content and as such I was looking for the film to help me out.
The first thing to say about this short film's delivery is that technically I really liked it. It is delivered in one take as the speaker descends the stairway and I liked how well the camera moved with her but also changed how close it was to the subject; the sound recording from Andy Stein also managed to capture the outdoor sound but also have consistent clarity and ancillary noise (footsteps) in a way that kept the feeling of genuineness in the location but had a good clean content. The delivery of the material from Frazer is also impressive – to deliver it all in one take.
What I didn't care for so much was how the sonnet was delivered; and please remember that I am not sure how to take the content. I looked to the film to help me understand a piece that seemed to me to be full of reluctance and darkness rather than soaring love and beauty; the text does strike me as being lacking in the realistic but yet hopeful tone of the previous sonnets in this series thus far, but I'm not sure that comes over in the delivery. The actress at times seems playful, smirking with her mouth and at the same time sparkling with her eyes. Her delivery suggested to me that the relationship was perhaps an affair that was at once wrong and that she hated it for what it was while also being one she couldn't quit. I didn't totally get that from the text and at times the places where she smiled and got playful didn't really fit with the words she was saying.
I guess it worked in the sense it made me think and play with the interpretations of what it could mean, but the film seemed too inconsistent with tone in such a short time. I am not sure if there is a set of self-imposed rules behind the Sonnet Project, but many have no pauses in the delivery and to me this is one that could have had more played out between the words and let the actress have more time to change between emotions. Like several of the others so far, the film also cuts to the credits way too quickly, not leaving enough time to really let the words sink in or for the character to take her leave of the film.
The first thing to say about this short film's delivery is that technically I really liked it. It is delivered in one take as the speaker descends the stairway and I liked how well the camera moved with her but also changed how close it was to the subject; the sound recording from Andy Stein also managed to capture the outdoor sound but also have consistent clarity and ancillary noise (footsteps) in a way that kept the feeling of genuineness in the location but had a good clean content. The delivery of the material from Frazer is also impressive – to deliver it all in one take.
What I didn't care for so much was how the sonnet was delivered; and please remember that I am not sure how to take the content. I looked to the film to help me understand a piece that seemed to me to be full of reluctance and darkness rather than soaring love and beauty; the text does strike me as being lacking in the realistic but yet hopeful tone of the previous sonnets in this series thus far, but I'm not sure that comes over in the delivery. The actress at times seems playful, smirking with her mouth and at the same time sparkling with her eyes. Her delivery suggested to me that the relationship was perhaps an affair that was at once wrong and that she hated it for what it was while also being one she couldn't quit. I didn't totally get that from the text and at times the places where she smiled and got playful didn't really fit with the words she was saying.
I guess it worked in the sense it made me think and play with the interpretations of what it could mean, but the film seemed too inconsistent with tone in such a short time. I am not sure if there is a set of self-imposed rules behind the Sonnet Project, but many have no pauses in the delivery and to me this is one that could have had more played out between the words and let the actress have more time to change between emotions. Like several of the others so far, the film also cuts to the credits way too quickly, not leaving enough time to really let the words sink in or for the character to take her leave of the film.
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- Jul 26, 2014
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