The story:
A factory of jeans workers goes on partial strike, only zigging designer jeans, and not zagging them. This garners them media attention which misconstrues every detail, turning a small labor dispute into a full-on strike. Only when an accident is interpreted as violence are sides willing to negotiate. Unfortunately, the only benefit the management is willing to placate them with is a cheap cheesecake.
(gotta have accuracy and realism)We switched between media (brilliantly constructed by our TD on Final Cut, complete with subtitles, French speech and picture-in-picture. And a ticker running at the bottom of the screen. It was hilarious!
Unfortunately, the rest of the class didn't get that it was supposed to be funny. They wanted to impose really serious meaning, which was there, but they didn't realize we were being satirical. It was interesting to see what people understood based on images (workers with tape across their mouths, discord, who brought in the cheesecake, our TD as "the man behind the curtain".
I don't usually like group projects, but this group seems to operate well together and voluntarily. Curiously, ours was the only humorous play (there was a thing about honor kills done by white people). I wonder if it is because the majority of the team was more experienced professionally, or just in a position that we don't feel a need to be all serious to establish ourselves. Or maybe we all share a sense of humor. Because I know we all agree on how to get a message across.
If I can get the video, I will post it. Till then, here are some candids before the performance.
(them angry workers)on iTunes: Frisky Radio
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