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Finally, however, the video??s protagonist excitedly finds out he has been placed in Eliot, and walks from his dorm in Matthews down to the House in a celebratory dance a la “(500) Days of Summer”—complete with Hall and Oats’ “You Make My Dreams.” Hugging and high-fiving everyone he meets, he arrives in the Eliot d-hall to find it filled with dancing upperclassmen, welcoming him to his new home...
...with it. Videos projected onto a gigantic screen throughout the production are particularly off-putting. Even when the video works in a technical sense, it is distracting, unnecessary, and alienating. This is no fault of video designer Joshua Thorson, whose work is actually quite charming by itself. Rather, any video??—even as engaging as Thorson’s—simply makes no sense here, where it takes away from the onstage action and detracts from the play’s narrative...
Smith’s one scene as crooked Mr. May is the only instance of a rewarding use of video in the play. Finally, the video??s detached feel makes thematic sense when projecting May’s image—in negative—as he speaks. His black-and-white face effectively reflects both Smith’s doubled role and May’s unfeeling nature...
When Elle Woods applied to Harvard Law School, she hired a director to film her admissions video??which eventually got her accepted. It seems like Tufts is now encouraging students to do the same, save the hiring a director part, of course...
This weekend, we found out what our friends in New Haven have been working on: a lusciously filmed, perfectly choreographed admissions video??that makes getting an education at Yale seem like just another a day at Disneyland...