Mannequin Challenge Analysis

Mannequin Challenge Reflections

My Group’s Videos I believe our group was fairly successful with our mannequin challenge in all ways. The end product turned out as we had imagined it and we are proud of our work. I think we really captured what we had hoped to in our videos. We aimed to stay very true to the play, but we tried to have a little fun with the background music. We chose to do act five, and we chose the four death scenes that occur. These scenes are not by any means fun or light, so we tried to keep our poses very reflective of that. In Desdemona’s death scene, we have Othello frozen smothering Desdemona. Othello’s expression is solemn and sad. We have Emilia peering in with her hands covering her mouth because she is shocked …show more content…
Although this song is not inherently humorous, it is often used in modern media to accompany overly dramatic scenes. It also plays into the fact that, for Desdemona, it truly is too late to apologize to Othello. In all of our other scenes we follow the same pattern of more serious poses with interesting music and costumes. All of our music is very modern and reflects exactly what is going on in the scene. We have the song ‘backstabber’ by Kesha when Roderigo is literally stabbed in the back. I believe these clever pairings of music and scene also help the audience understand what’s happening. We spent a lot of time picking the right song for each scene. Our groups biggest strength was our attention to detail I believe. We were very specific on the props we used, the costumes we wore, and the way we were posed. For example, we shot many takes of Othello’s death scene because we wanted to get the perfect portrayal of Iago being reluctantly takes as prisoner. We eventually settled to have him trying to break free from the officer because it showed how frustrated he was being caught, and it added movement to the pose. Also, for Roderigo’s death scene, we had Katherine, who played Cassio, cut open her leggings and wrap her leg in a bloody cloth. This was our way of showing how Cassio would have had his leg cut in two. It wasn’t the focus of the scene, but we wanted to make sure it showed up in the …show more content…
The gender roles thing was very intriguing to me and wanted to hear more about how that was happening in the scenes. It grabbed my attention. I was confused as I watched, and I struggled to figure out what was going on in the scenes. I would like to reference specific parts of the scenes that confused me but I don’t have a good enough grasp on who was who to do so accurately. I was very impressed by the creativity, and the motion added to the throwing of the handkerchiefs was an excellent creative choice. I believe it added some fun and some animation to the scene. It definitely caught my