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Wiki Assignment 1 Screen Time

With the first episode uploaded on YouTube on 29th June 2011, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared is an on-going mini series of five episodes. Created by Joseph Pelling and Becky Sloan in an art studio in Shoreditch, it consists of five short videos (around four minutes each) that combine animation, stop motion and digital. Each episode takes the form of a Sesame street-style educational programme for kids, with puppets and goggly-eyed, felt-made objects. Here, the three main puppets, Duck Guy, Yellow Guy and Red Guy, guided by a 'teacher of the day' learn about different topics such as creativity, time, love, computers and food through catchy and funny songs. That is, until around half of the video, when the scene takes a delirious, disturbing turn, revealing the true nature of the mentors and capturing the insane world in which these puppets live. Blood, raw meat, gory organs and frenetic dance moves mix with paint, leaves and glitter, all while the diegetic music accelerates, the room spins and characters scream in close-up shots. The viewer can catch hints about the turn that these scenes are about to take. For instance, in the first episode[1], which is themed on creativity, the mentor-notepad encourages the three protagonists to be creative and think creatively about the world. Then, it covers in black paint Yellow Guy’s portrait of a clown saying that 'he might need to slow down' and also gives him a cutout X when he chooses green as his favourite colour, despotically asserting that 'green is not a creative colour'. Similarly, in the second episode [2], about time, when the mentor-clock is philosophically questioned by the characters about the reality of time it starts screaming and makes their ears bleed. Then, they start to rotten and decade in high speed as if they were growing older all at once, all while they beg him to 'make it stop'. The first episode, originally posted on Vimeo, was later uploaded on YouTube and given the opportunity to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012[3] after going viral. With its second episode, funded by Channel 4 Random Acts, the series caught the eye of larger companies that wanted to sponsor it. However, the creators responded[4] that they wanted to keep it fairly odd and have the freedom to do exactly what they wished to do. Likewise, they felt that because the series was born out of the internet, it was fair to keep it there. Indeed, around the miniseries has grown such a following that the other episodes have been funded by a KickStarter of £104,905. [5] This same fanbase also elaborates theories and creates its own stop-motions beyond and within the original narrative, under permission of its creators, who explicitly leave open the episodes to any and anyone’s interpretation.

Everynameistaken15 (talk) 20:10, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Comments on Wiki Exercise 1

Please insert your comments on my post here, and don't forget to sign and date your comments or they won't count! Everynameistaken15 (talk) 16:03, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

FMSU9A4 Wiki Assignment 1

For anyone on this course, I found here [6] that if you are part of a educational project on wiki like ours,you should put a template in your assignments like this one: curly bracket curly bracket Educational assignment curly bracket curly bracket (I had to write it this way otherwise it would recognise this as a template too, but substitute the words "curly bracket" with actual curly brackets on your keyboard) so it won't get deleted as misuse like it's happening now. I put this template in my piece and hopefully it will show that it's part of a student project. You might want to try it too. Everynameistaken15 (talk) 17:08, 10 February 2016 (UTC)