For my blog assignment, I chose to use the second episode of the Guild Web Series. It is worth noting that although, this episode "Zaboo'd," is old, episodes of the Guild are released weekly during the season. It has a higher budget than most internet video, but this was shot before the Guild had worked out a deal with Microsoft and Dark Horse Comics and it has a lower budget that most serialized video productions and later Guild episodes. This show was designed to give the viewer understanding of the premise while moving the plot along for those who saw the first guild episode.
Guild episode scenes start with Cid (Codex) talking on her webvlog. This is one long cut of a young women staring directly into the camera and addressing her viewers. Both the video and audio quality are not as polished as they are in the rest of the video. Yet if anything, this creates realism instead of taking from it. This relationship between audio and video creates setting while explaining that the Guild not only discusses problems unique to regular internet users but is itself, is something unique to the internet.
An animated intro with an 8-bit videogame-eqse soundtrack and Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) styled characters characters. The animation is primitive and shots focus on the unrealistic body representations before focusing on each guild members' face. The tune is in time with each movement.
The rest of the Guild episode focuses on the characters Codex and Zaboo, rather than just Codex alone. The video is brighter and clearer. The bright colors in the house they are shooting in seem cartoon like and feeds a sense of the dramatic. Cuts are seamless, fluid. All editing is done to bring the viewer into the story.The shots move quickly between the awkward stance of our "heros" and the faces of the speakers. Codex's confusion is in directly contrast with her stalkers' relaxed, easygoing state. The motions of walking into Codex's bedroom is implied. The Guild's second episode does alot for a 2 and a half minute clip. Almost all sound consists of dialogue. Any background noise is based around the computers, such as Zaboo's typing and the Guild's voice chat confusion coming from Codex's computer (which was resumed from the first episode, where Zaboo was late for a raid for the first time). This shows how the Guild's characters are isolated from "the physical realm" of reality.
The rest of the Guild episode focuses on the characters Codex and Zaboo, rather than just Codex alone. The video is brighter and clearer. The bright colors in the house they are shooting in seem cartoon like and feeds a sense of the dramatic. Cuts are seamless, fluid. All editing is done to bring the viewer into the story.The shots move quickly between the awkward stance of our "heros" and the faces of the speakers. Codex's confusion is in directly contrast with her stalkers' relaxed, easygoing state. The motions of walking into Codex's bedroom is implied. The Guild's second episode does alot for a 2 and a half minute clip. Almost all sound consists of dialogue. Any background noise is based around the computers, such as Zaboo's typing and the Guild's voice chat confusion coming from Codex's computer (which was resumed from the first episode, where Zaboo was late for a raid for the first time). This shows how the Guild's characters are isolated from "the physical realm" of reality.
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