Brief 2: Post IV

I first came across Liam Stewart’s curation of film scores, as an avid film watcher myself I can fall absolutely in love with a good soundtrack even along a terrible film; I respect how Liam used all kinds of music genres, some were slow and relaxing, others were just quirky and fun, and could even be even loud and intimidating. Music can make or break a film scene, and you may not have ever noticed but imagine any emotional and traumatising death scene and replace it with "The Spanish Flea," can you say it still has the same impact as it did before?

(I also may or may not have had Brian Eno’s “The Big Ship” on repeat while writing this entire post.)

Then I saw Ella-Maree Fairweather’s post, I am definitely not someone that’s very invested or even aware of K-dramas but as a writer, I’m always a sucker for a good story. A lot of these dramas, which I have never seen or heard of before, sound well story-driven and much more emotionally connecting than the majority shows I’ve watched in literal years. Though, some of their stories sound so awfully convoluted that I have a hard time believing they have very satisfying conclusions, but maybe my bar is just so low from past television shows ‘jumping the shark’ pretty early on in the series. These dramas could be a nice, refreshing start to begin binge-watching shows all over again.

And finally, I found Dana Navarro’s collection, I’ve always loved the idea of combining video games, which is already a fun time, with friends since it must just turn out to be such a trainwreck; especially with somewhat broken games like ‘Octodad.’ I was surprised by just the variety of games Dana had chosen, which isn’t a bad thing; some were fairly story driven where you complete levels together one at a time, but others had no narrative. I had never considered ‘Minecraft’ a co-op game, even though you can play it with others, it's almost like an exploration/survival game and I never really thought of it as anything different.

1. Liam Stewart:https://pwy5272.wixsite.com/mysite/brief-2

2. Ella-Maree Fairweather:https://ellamaree8.wixsite.com/serendipity/blog/a-collection-of-10-kdramas

3. Dana Navarro:https://iwritedana.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/brief-2-my-collection/