Comedy,
5:00 minutes,
English,
BC,
2008
Synopsis
The rise and demise of a long-distance relationship plays out over a game of tennis.
Creative team
Writer/producer/director: Allison Beda
Producer: Stephanie Symns
Personal statement
Allison Beda says:
The concept behind 30-LOVE was to have a simple voice-over ‘story’ of a long-distance relationship combined with the visuals of a tennis match between the couple.
The idea was to do this in such a way as to create an ‘experience’ for the viewer/listener of the intensely varied emotional arc of one of the lovers.
We created a collage of the images, a ‘dance’ of the tennis game and the musical score includes includes manipulated and recomposed diegetic sounds of the tennis game and environment.
30-LOVE is (hopefully) a multidimensional piece, which conveys the complexity of meaning and emotion: the beauty, the tragedy and the comedy of experience that is love and life.
It was a brilliant collaboration with a lot of talented people overseen by fellow producer Stephanie Symns.
The choreographer Claire French (artist in residence Leeds University UK 2006-07) and I had an odd collaboration since we were in separate countries while planning the shoot.
We ended up sending lots of pictures to each other via email, hoping we were on the same page. I had worked with Leo award winning composer Teresa Connors (Dog Boy, How To Be A Model) and started developing the idea with her very early on.
The piece is danced by Delia Brett and Daelik (who are the dance company Machine Noisy) and they were brilliant especially since neither of them actually plays tennis.
The voice-over is performed by recording artist Adrienne Pierce who's album tracks from Faultline featured on The L Word, Veronica Mars and Grey’s Anantomy. She had never done voice-over acting before but completely ‘got’ the character and hit it out of the park.
Both the editor Lindsay Allikas and the cinematographer (James Liston) really took advantage of the split-screen concept. I can’t wait to work with everybody again.