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We created a short multimedia sketch that incorporated live actors and pre-recorded video. Our two actors were playing the roles of high school students and the video documented their cell phone screens during a texting conversation between them. In the sketch, a girl named Sarah is nervously texting her classmate, Brad, in hopes that he will ask her to homecoming. Brad is rather indifferent and apathetic towards both Sarah and the idea of going to homecoming. He ends up asking Sarah’s friend, Emma, to the dance, which breaks Sarah’s heart.

On stage, our two actors pretended to text while supplementing the performance by using their body language and facial expressions to convey emotion – Sarah was nervous, eager, and excited to be texting with Brad, but he was bored, distracted, and not very enthusiastic.

To create the video, we used QuickTime to record the screens of two iPhones. We edited the raw videos in Adobe Premier, adding sound effects and background music from Youtube.

Final Video: https://drive.google.com/a/andrew.cmu.edu/file/d/0B-uoAoMaSoCFcE90eFpwWHg0SnM/view?usp=sharing