Sonnet #19
- Episode aired Jun 13, 2013
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S1.10: Sonnet #19: I really have no idea what it was going for but the effect is distracting from the material and quite amateur in impression
I have no idea whether I am right about how I take the sonnets when I read them so, although I go in with my impressions of what is meant and therefore how it should perhaps be delivered, I am very open to see what actual creative people and their text coaches make of it since I think they will have a better take on it. For sonnet 19 I have the feeling that the writer is hoping to defeat time – the lines talk of the effects of aging and plead with Time that it can do anything it wants with the rest of the world, but do not affect the writer's love. This continues until, entering the next stage of acceptance, the writer accepts it will come but takes hope from the fact that his love in verse cannot be affect in this way. I was interested to see how it would be delivered in the Project.
What I didn't expect was that it would be delivered by a woman ducking in and around a statue while the film rapidly edits around and over here, overlaying the screen with words and also different shots of the woman talking. I have no idea what this style brings to the film and I watched it a few times looking for any reason or any benefit that I could see; if there is any then I confess it totally escapes me. It is visually very distracting but not in a good way; the overlaying of the words with their font and style made me feel like I was watching a YouTube video made on Windows Movie Maker. The rapid cuts and overlapping of scene really just distracted and never felt like a good idea or an effective one in any way. Not only did it not add to the sonnet, it actively distracted from it.
This is a shame because ultimately this is the aim of the project, but even having just read the sonnet a few times before watching, I could barely follow it due to the quick delivery and all the distractions. Ironically, where other films thus far have tended to cut to credits too quickly, this one lingers for quite some time as the character walks off (and a passerby looks back at the camera) – this time and single take would have been better served inserted into the film to try and slow it down and give it some space. As it is, I am afraid to say that I found the delivery distracting, detracting and surprisingly amateurish in its impression.
What I didn't expect was that it would be delivered by a woman ducking in and around a statue while the film rapidly edits around and over here, overlaying the screen with words and also different shots of the woman talking. I have no idea what this style brings to the film and I watched it a few times looking for any reason or any benefit that I could see; if there is any then I confess it totally escapes me. It is visually very distracting but not in a good way; the overlaying of the words with their font and style made me feel like I was watching a YouTube video made on Windows Movie Maker. The rapid cuts and overlapping of scene really just distracted and never felt like a good idea or an effective one in any way. Not only did it not add to the sonnet, it actively distracted from it.
This is a shame because ultimately this is the aim of the project, but even having just read the sonnet a few times before watching, I could barely follow it due to the quick delivery and all the distractions. Ironically, where other films thus far have tended to cut to credits too quickly, this one lingers for quite some time as the character walks off (and a passerby looks back at the camera) – this time and single take would have been better served inserted into the film to try and slow it down and give it some space. As it is, I am afraid to say that I found the delivery distracting, detracting and surprisingly amateurish in its impression.
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