Bad News

Cecilia Stenbom; Ben Young

doi:10.37186/swrks/13.1/9

Bad News

Cecilia Stenbom, Ben Young

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Abstract

BAD NEWS is 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.

Original language	English
Journal	Screenworks
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.37186/swrks/13.1/9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2023

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