Alexandria Murphy
Shawn Wasser
Ryan Jewell
Seongmin Cheon
Digital Creativity
4/19/16
iMovie Artistic
Statement
In
this film we wanted to capture the essence of the classic Cinderella story, while putting a modern day twist on it. Everyone
knows the original tale of the poor girl, mistreated by her step family, who
gets one magical night at the ball, only to lose her shoe, which is eventually
returned to her by the prince. But we decided to take the ending in a different
direction by having Cindy search desperately for her work shoe while Henry, her
math tutor, is trying to get the shoe back to her. But they just cannot seem to
be in the same place at the same time. Until finally, once Henry has turned to
drinking due to his stress over the problem and Cindy has gone to decompress at
the bar, Cindy notices… her shoe! Just sitting up on the bar counter. She then
proceeds to just grab it off the counter and walk away, leaving Henry just
sitting there looking confused.
We
also wanted to make the bartender the Fairy Godmother type character. So we had
him be the one suggest that Cindy get those specific shoes for her new job and
we had him right at the center of the whole search for the shoe.
We
decided to take the stereotypes out from the original and make it into
something that college students would be more likely to relate to. While we were
not expecting a “deep and personal” connection with any of the characters by
any means, we would like to think that people can relate in the sense that we
all know what it is like to get caught up in one specific task and you can’t
move on until you complete what you have been working so hard to accomplish. I
think that anyone in college can understand the type of stress this kind of
scenario can bring about in our lives, whether it is studying, homework, or
just social situations in general.
There
were some editing strategies that we employed to help the plot along as well.
For example, during the scene where Henry and Cindy are running up and down the
stairs searching for one another, we decided to speed up the scene and replace
the background noise with some music from the original Scooby Doo series, to give it that feeling like when you were
watching Scooby Doo as a kid and the
“chase scene” came on and as Scooby and the gang would run away from the
monster, entering and exiting through various doors, somehow always seeming to just miss each other during the whole
encounter.
While
we did take the frame from this family favorite, we believe that we were able
to transform the story and make it our own. Enough so that, when you are
watching it, you can feel the presence of Cinderella,
but the presence and ideas of Alex, Shawn, Ryan, and Seongmin as well.
