Abstract
Bad News, by Cecilia Stenbom and Ben Young, a short film developed as part of a wider creative practice research project that seeks to explore role-playing and simulation as an institutional and corporate training device, and how this might be utilised in fiction filmmaking. The film succeeds in capturing the banalities of corporate middle-management, nailing the awkwardness of delivering the bad news of the title in a “sacking scenario” role-play. This original experiment offers a new twist on improvisation, drawing on applied theatre techniques used in drama-based training to create an unscripted narrative short film that combines fiction and documentary, which is a pilot for a feature-length fiction film currently in development.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 9 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Screenworks |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 29 Jun 2023 |