“Cruising” by Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar is a very interesting film text. It is short and sweet and tells a story while allowing audience interaction. The audience interaction feature allows the viewer (who is also a reader because of the text that forms part of this short film), to engage with the piece and consume it at his/her own pace. The speaker’s voice is also an important feature because her tone and pace is very fitting with the title, images, and the theme of this piece. It is as though her voice is cruising along with her, and makes this film text very believable. I felt like I was on a journey “on the edge of Wisconsin” with three girls. I did not feel like I was part of their journey, but I felt like I definitely could have been sitting in the backseat of the car they traveled in with the narrator – not as part of the story, but a first hand witness to it. I found the inclusion of the line about Joanie putting on a line of pink lipstick very intimate, and found that it worked especially well because it was placed before “we’d get to know each other really well.” I can see this film text being used as an advertisement that would play before the feature presentation in a movie theater. It would be a good ad. Very simple, yet engaging and interesting at the same time, because there are a number of meanings and associations that people could draw from it. I will picture myself in this film text whenever I am driving in Wisconsin.
Until then!
Signed: Non-Analog
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