Webspinna - It's Battle Time

THX

20th Century Fox

Action!

Scores

Inigo Montoya Quote

Movie Quotes 1

Movie Quotes 2

Movie Speeches 

Applause

Artist Statement:

Being completely honest, I was really nervous to do this project. However, it turned out to be one of my favorite projects we’ve done all semester. My partner and I didn’t actually get to perform on Friday night, but I was able to go and watch all of the other performances. It was so much fun and so interesting to see what people picked for their battle personas, and which sounds that went along with them.

For our Webspinna Battle, Hannah and I chose to do Theatre vs. Film. It was a fun and interesting choice for us because we both come from theatre and film backgrounds, so we each understood the other side really well. It was also just a lot of fun because we had so much to work with. We kind of mapped it out to where it was kind of a story. We each started out with an introduction to how a film or a play would start. Then we threw in things that are unique to plays and films and juxtaposed them against each other. After that we wanted to sort of slow things down a bit before the big finish. Toward the end of our battle we chose louder and more spectacular songs to build up to the finish, and then we ended together, with applause.

Our thoughts in doing all of this was that we wanted to address this kind of weird clash that film and theatre seem to have going on. We wanted to highlight the unique parts of each, but we also wanted to tie them together, because both mediums are trying to do essentially the same thing: tell a story. We thought that by combining sounds and elements of each medium to tell our story would be the best way to illustrate this.

In a way, this assignment is a lot like what Jonathan Letham talks about in The Ectasy of Influence. We were taking small snippets of sounds from various places and combining them to make something entirely different. Art lends itself to this kind of thing, and often old things can become new in someone else’s hands. This project was a really cool exploration of that concept, and it opened up so many creative channels that I hadn’t even recognized before.

~Brontë Campbell