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Thursday, 5 July 2012


Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
(Nigel Coan, 2012)
From the childlike imagination of Noel Fielding, comes the mixture of live action and animation that is, Luxury Comedy. The sets are created from what looks like the contents of a child's craft set; reflective card, glitter, felt tip pens, crayon, sparkly fabrics, sequins, feathers, etc. It's an extravagant mixture of exaggerated textures and surfaces, for example, creases are painted onto fabrics. It is psychedelic and over the top and props are created from the most normal of objects, making them very abnormal in the process. Beards created from pencil crayons, facial features made from plastic cups. Make up and face paint are used in an exaggerated manner too. The whole feel of the programme is colourful and bizarre, a neon, geometric world.

Saturday, 28 January 2012

Fresh Meat (S1EO2)
(Various Directors, 2011)

Fresh Meat is the telling of six first-year university students who missed out on places in halls and so find themselves living together in a student house. The living space that they all share is very typically “student house” and I hate to use such a phrase! However, the furniture is mismatched and somewhat worn, sofas with throws and cushion strewn over them. Various sets of different coloured fairy lights hang around the room, which merges with the kitchen. The kitchen is a you would expect, with mismatched crockery and glasses stacked around the surfaces. Empty drink bottles are also dotted around. Space invaders stickers decorate the otherwise plain, dated kitchen cupboards.