Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Media Meditation #2 : Boys & Girls

[Photo of The Harvard Sailing Team]


The video "Girls Will Be Boys", most likely wont be as interesting to the guys as it is to the girls.
It's humor is good at taking a males point of view and using common conversations with the male gender and put it in to the words of women.
It's almost using plainfolks persuasive technique as well, because this video is using everyday conversation and reactions that normal men would have.
Bellow the video was put in, only 3 1/2 minutes it is a fascinating short film about turning view points.
Which makes me wonder, what would it be like if they switched it with the men acting as girlfriends.

[Found at Snotr]


Even though the video says four, there are five girls in the video, a small factor that people enjoy arguing about.
This video was created by a comedy group called The Harvard Sailing Team
These girls in the video reenact their boyfriends, in more of a role playing fashion.
Produced by the Untucked Films, it was directed by Jonathan Emmerling
The photography director was Pat Armitage and was edited by Charles Divak.

There wasn't as much to find about this group, expect they were at first part of an improv group that eventually formed The Harvard Sailing Team. They focus more on comedy, and have been features on CBS Early Show, New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, and TheAtlantic.com.

When looking for their specific website I was able to also find the video of four males acting as their girlfriends, when I will add here.



These videos, plus multiple others, and shows can all be found on their website.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

1 comment:

  1. Good blogging here, Miranda!

    Fascinating subject - go more deeply with your analysis.

    Very fine use of our Web 2.0 tools, though!

    You are getting the hang of this,

    Dr. W

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